Functions
When it’s all mixed up, better break it down.
—Tears for Fears
In this chapter:
– Modularity
– Declaring and defining a function
– Calling a function
– Arguments and parameters
– Returning a value
– Reusability
7-1 Break it down
The examples provided in Chapter 1 through Chapter 6 are short. I probably have not shown a sketch with more than 100 lines of code. These programs are the equivalent of writing the opening paragraph of this chapter, as opposed to the whole chapter itself.
Processing is great because you can make interesting visual sketches with small amounts of code. But as you move forward to looking at more complex projects, such as network applications or image processing programs, you will start to have hundreds of lines of code. ...
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