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Learning Processing, 2nd Edition
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Learning Processing, 2nd Edition

by Daniel Shiffman
September 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
564 pages
13h 28m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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7

Functions

When it’s all mixed up, better break it down.

—Tears for Fears

In this chapter:

 Modularity

 Declaring and defining a function

 Calling a function

 Arguments and parameters

 Returning a value

 Reusability

7-1 Break it down

The examples provided in Chapter 1 through Chapter 6 are short. I probably have not shown a sketch with more than 100 lines of code. These programs are the equivalent of writing the opening paragraph of this chapter, as opposed to the whole chapter itself.

Processing is great because you can make interesting visual sketches with small amounts of code. But as you move forward to looking at more complex projects, such as network applications or image processing programs, you will start to have hundreds of lines of code. ...

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