DAY 5
WEEK 1
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. Today’s lesson covers
user-defined functions, which, as the name implies, are functions defined and
created by you, the programmer. Today you will learn:- What a function is and what its parts are
- About the advantages of structured programming with functions
- How to create a function
- How to declare local variables in a function
- How to return a value from a function to the program
- How to pass arguments to a function
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