May 2013
Beginner
696 pages
47h 10m
English
Content preview from Visual Basic® 2012 How to Program, Sixth Edition
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6. Methods
Form ever follows function.
—Louis Henri Sullivan
O! call back yesterday, bid time return.
—William Shakespeare
Answer me in one word.
—William Shakespeare
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll:
• Construct programs modularly from methods.
• Create new methods.
• Pass information between methods.
• Learn simulation techniques that employ random-number generation.
• Understand how the visibility of identifiers is limited to specific regions of programs.
• Use method overloading and Optional parameters.
• Use debugger commands for entering and exiting methods and for continuing program execution.
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