procedures and functions-project ideas needed?

[Jimbo1991]

i have a final project to do with turing, in which procedures and functions need to be used, can anybody give me some ideas that i could do for it? thanks

[Tony]

absolutely anything. You should be refactoring your code into usable functions anyway.

[Jimbo1991]

and what exactly does that mean? im a noob when it comes to turing

[Tony]

not just Turing
Wikipedia: Refactoring

Quote:

Code refactoring is any change to a computer program's code that improves its readability or simplifies its structure without changing its results.

[Jimbo1991]

im still lost, even with wikipedia, how about an example please?

[Tony]

Turing:

function say_hello()    put "hello" end say_hello put "the program will now greed you" say_hello() put "the program is now finished"

[Jimbo1991]

o ok, il have to check it out the next time i have a computer that has turing on it

[Tony]

you could read more on this in tutorials via the Turing Walkthrough

[Saad]

Tony @ Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:42 pm wrote:

Turing:

function say_hello()    put "hello" end say_hello put "the program will now greed you" say_hello() put "the program is now finished"

Perhaps you were in a hurry but it should be procedure not function

Turing:

procedure say_hello ()     put "hello" end say_hello put "the program will now greed you" say_hello () put "the program is now finished"

To answer your orignal question. Functions and procedures are used to put repetative code only once.

Consider the following

Turing:

function GetInput (what : string) : string     put what     var input : string     get input     result input end GetInput var firstName := GetInput ("Please enter your first name") var lastName := GetInput ("Please enter your last name")

Vs.

Turing:

var firstName, lastName : string put "Please enter your first name" get firstName put "Please enter your last name" get lastName

[Jimbo1991]

finaly i understand! thanks