A function gives the user the ability to execute a block of instructions on a set of inputs to receive a particular output. Functions are useful when the user needs to execute a set of instructions many times with different parameters. The syntax for a function is below: return_type name(parameter1, parameter2, …) { statements } Full Article…
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C++ Helper Functions
Overview A helper function is merely a function that passes additional arguments to another function of a similar name. The additional arguments that are passed in are usually predetermined by the programmer that allow the use of recursion. This tutorial considers you are knowledgeable with recursion since our example deals with a recursive function. Example Full Article…
Introduction to Functions
Functions allow you to perform the same operation on many inputs with one simple call. Why a function anyways? First of all, let’s see how we’d perform a certain task without one. How would we print out the entire contents of a vector each time we modified it? Let’s show how we would do it Full Article…
