JavaScript™ for Programmers: Deitel

7. JavaScript: Functions

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• How to create new functions.

• How to pass information between functions.

• Simulation techniques that use random number generation.

• How the visibility of identifiers is limited to specific regions of programs.

• To use JavaScript’s global functions.

• To use recursive functions.

• To compare recursion vs. iteration.

Form ever follows function.—Louis Sullivan

E pluribus unum. (One composed of many.)—Virgil

O! call back yesterday, bid time return.—William Shakespeare

Call me Ishmael.—Herman Melville

When you call me that, smile.—Owen Wister

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Functions

7.3 Programmer-Defined Functions

7.4 Function Definitions

7.5 Random Number Generation ...

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