C++20 for Lazy Programmers: Quick, Easy, and Fun C++ for Beginners

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7. Functions

Will Briggs¹  

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Lynchburg, VA, USA

 

In this chapter, we get the number one way to not get lost in pages of code till your eyes go blurry: functions.

Functions that return values

Consider how things are done in a candy factory. It has machines to make things we want. Each machine has things it needs piped in and the thing it produces piped out. Want a candy bar? Activate the machine and give it its inputs, and it’ll provide the result (see Figure 7-1).

Figure 7-1

Structure of a “makeCandyBar” machine

C++ has “machines” too (called “functions”): ...