Chapter 6
Dividing Your Work with Functions
IN THIS CHAPTER
Working with functions
Writing your own great functions
Fun with strings
Manipulating main()
People generally agree that most projects throughout life are easier when you divide them into smaller, more manageable tasks. That’s also the case with computer programming — if you break your code into smaller pieces, it becomes more manageable.
C++ provides many ways to divide code into smaller portions. One way is through the use of what are called functions. A function is a set of lines of code that performs a particular job. In this chapter, you discover what functions are and how you can use them to make your programming job easier.
You don’t have to type the source code for this chapter manually. In fact, using the downloadable source is a lot easier. You can find the source for this chapter in the \CPP_AIO4\BookI\Chapter06 folder of the downloadable source. See the Introduction for details on how to find these source files. ...
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