The Waite Group's C++ Primer Plus, Third Edition

Chapter 7. FUNCTIONS—C++'S PROGRAMMING MODULES

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

• Function basics (review)

• Function prototypes

• Passing function arguments by value

• Designing functions to process arrays

• Using const pointer arguments

• Designing functions to process text strings

• Designing functions to process structures

• Functions that call themselves (recursion)

• Pointers to functions

Fun is where you find it. Look closely, and you can find it in functions. C++ comes with a large library of useful functions (the standard ANSI C library plus several C++ classes), but real programming pleasure comes with writing your own. In this and the next chapter you'll examine how to define functions, convey information to them, and retrieve information ...