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Coding uiz 01 Critical Thinking
State whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
a. Function is a block of code.
b. Function helps to maximize errors.
Coding fact
Frances Elizabeth Allen is the first woman to become an IBM Fellow and in
2006 she won the Turing Award.
HOW TO REDUCE REDUNDANCY USING FUNCTIONS?
Redundancy means when you do not repeat the same lines of code throughout the code
and use functions in places of those lines of code, and you are avoiding the redundancy
that you may have created by not using functions.
Consider an example of getting ready for school.
Getting ready to go to school involves six main steps:
Step 1: Wake up early in the morning.
Step 2: Brush your teeth.
Step 3: Take a bath.
Step 4: Eat your breakfast.
Step 5: Pack your school bag.
Step 6: Go to school.
Although the action ‘Getting ready for school’ constitutes only six steps, yet while describing
your day-to-day life routine to someone else, you will use the phrase like ‘Getting ready for
school’. This action of ‘Getting ready for school’ is easy for the other person to understand
and covers up the above given six steps in a single action. So, every time when you include
‘Getting ready for school’ in your routine, it will automatically cover the above given six
steps.
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