B.3 Declaring a Method with a Parameter
In our car analogy from Section 1.8, we discussed the fact that pressing a car’s gas pedal sends a message to the car to perform a task—to go faster. But how fast should the car accelerate? As you know, the farther down you press the pedal, the faster the car accelerates. So the message to the car actually includes the task to perform and additional information that helps the car perform the task. This additional information is known as a parameter—the value of the parameter helps the car determine how fast to accelerate. Similarly, a method can require one or more parameters that represent additional information it needs to perform its task. Parameters are defined in a comma-separated parameter list
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