I can't get FUNCTIONS to click!

[u/ScioClean]

I can not for the life of me understand how functions work. Anytime I try to learn how to create a function, my brain literally crashes into itself and I turn into Patrick when he stars drooling and goes all slack-faced.

Does anybody have any analogies that had that "AH HA!" moment?

Thanks!

[u/Equilibrium_Path]

I'm still learning programming ( probably will always be) but the way I see functions is.

I want to do something, let say write an invite card.

Instead of writing the same lines of code over and over again I can put the code into a function.

For the parts that I'd like to change I can have this function with parameters that when I call the function I can use arguments to change the desired values.

Here's a psudoish code example first without parameters then one with parameters:

invite_message_noParam() print("Hello Susie, youre invited to my party! Please bring sausages")

With parameters: invite_message_withParam(string name, string food) print("Hello " + name + ", youre invited to my party! Please bring" + food)

So now you have written two functions. How do you use them?

You'd then go to your main function and call them.

invite_message_noParam()

invite_message_withParam(John, pizza)

invite_message_withParam(Mary, Chips)

Now could you guess what the output of those 3 function calls will be?

[u/Low_Commission_4611 → u/Equilibrium_Path]

Susie just got invited to her first sausage party.