Beginning C# 7 Hands-On - The Core Language

Working with methods

This is a way of making a method act on a variable. Let's express that in the comment for our purposes, with this simple level of explanation:

//9. Convert is a class that stores the ToDouble method

In a class, again at this level of explanation, you should think of it as a container; one of those things is a method, and a method is essentially the following:

//10. A method is a block of code that accepts input, operates on the input and produces output

A method is a block of code that basically gets loaded into memory: it operates and produces output. So, in other words, this is what happens: a method is a block of code that accepts input, operates on input, and produces output. That's it. It's a little machine, just ...