Chapter 6 Quiz – Part One

_____ _______: breaking a program up into smaller, manageable functions or modules. It supports the divide-and-conquer approach to solving a problem.

_____: a collection of statements to perform a specific task

Reason for modular programming are..

1) Simplifies the process of writing programs

2) Improves the maintainability of programs

____ ____: a statement that causes a function to execute

___ _____: the statements that make up a function

A function definition includes how many items? (a number)

_____ ____: the variables that hold the values that are passed to the function when it is called

___: the statements that perform the function’s task

___ ____: data type of the value the function returns to the part of the program that called it

The function header consists of:

• the function return type

• the function name

• the function parameter list