1,760
edits
Changes
no edit summary
= INVESTIGATION 1: CREATING THE SIMPLEST FUNCTIONS =
:A very simple definition of using '''functions''' is to create and reuse '''smaller programs within a larger program'''. In programming languages such as '''C''', '''C++''' and '''Java''', commonly used functions are pre-packaged in '''libraries'''. This relates to dependency issues that were discussed when compiling C programming code in your OPS235 course: if a supporting library is missing, the program would not be able to run the called function.
:Usually, a '''function''' will '''contain programming code''' in some part of the python file (most likely near the top of the file, before the main program). We refer to that as a '''"function declaration"'''.
