Lesson 5. Packaging Code in Functions

Functions are central to C programming and to the philosophy of C program design. You’ve already been introduced to some of C’s library functions, which are complete functions supplied as part of your compiler. This lesson covers user-defined functions, which, as the name implies, are functions defined and created by you, the programmer. In this lesson you learn:

Image What a function is and what its parts are

Image The advantages of structured programming with functions

How to create a function

How to declare local ...

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