Tutorial
Functions are code blocks that can have arguments, and function have their own scope. In JavaScript, functions are a very important feature of the program, and especially the fact that they can access local variables of a parent function (this is called a closure).
There are two ways to define functions in JavaScript - named functions and anonymous functions.
To define a named function, we use the function
statement as follows:
function greet(name)
{
return "Hello " + name + "!";
}
console.log(greet("Eric")); // prints out Hello Eric!
In this function, the name
argument to the greet
function is used inside the function to construct a new string and return it using the return
statement.
To define an anonymous function, we can alternatively use the following syntax:
var greet = function(name)
{
return "Hello " + name + "!";
}
console.log(greet("Eric")); // prints out Hello Eric!
Exercise
Define a function called multiplyFive
which accepts a number and returns that number multiplied by 5.
Tutorial Code
// TODO: define the function multiplyFive here
console.log(multiplyFive(3));
console.log(multiplyFive(4));
console.log(multiplyFive(5));
console.log(multiplyFive(6));
Expected Output
15
20
25
30