Procedures and functions

Question 1

What is the difference between a procedure and a function?

Answer 1

Procedures and functions are very similar, but a function returns a result whereas a procedure does not

Question 2

What is a function for?

Answer 2

A way of grouping together a set of actions that perform a task so that code can be reused

Question 3

What is the name of information given to a function to use?

Answer 3

parameters. There can be no, one or many parameters to a function / procedure

Question 4

What is the result of a function called?

Answer 4

the return value

Question 5

functions provided as part of a programming language are called

Answer 5

built in or library functions