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We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements Today, Carrie Anne is going to start our overview of the fundamental building blocks of programming languages.

Usefulness. Having functions return stuff, instead of passing arguments by reference/pointer, is specially useful when you can use the return value in an expression, or argument to another function ...