CMPT 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: In C

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Computing Science
• Course: CMPT 127
• Professor: Richard Vaughan

Document Summary

C is a structured, procedural programming language, that is, it supports the definition of isolated, self-contained blocks of code that can be re-used as components of larger programs. In c and python these are called functions, but other languages call them procedures, subroutines, or methods. Given a well-designed function, you can often use it for what it does, and ignore the internal details of how it works. This idea of functional encapsulation makes it feasible for humans to write complex programs by breaking them down into small, more manageable pieces. You have already used several functions provided by the standard library, such as printf and floor, without seeing how they were implemented.