C Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

Key Concepts

If you want to program successfully and efficiently in C, you need to understand functions. It's useful, even essential, to organize larger programs into several functions. If you follow the practice of giving one function one task, your programs will be easier to understand and debug. Make sure that you understand how functions communicate information to one another; that is, understand how function arguments and return values work. Also, be aware how function parameters and other local variables are private to a function; thus, declaring two variables of the same name in different functions creates two distinct variables. Also, one function does not have direct access to variables declared in another function. This limited access ...