Order in which a function works.

Good question, many people also have the same question when they are first learning about functions.

When the computer executes the "printf" statement, it basically goes as follows:

It first looks at what is inside of the "printf" parenthesis, (the () ). When it makes its way to looking at the function name (in this case funky_math), the computer will leap/go to where that function has been implemented (Where you added the code to the body of your function). The computer will continue to follow and run the code that you put in that function until the last line of code in that function. Because funky_math is a function that returns an integer, the last line of code is “return a + b + 343”. Now, the computer because it has looked at all of the lines of code in the function, it leaps back/goes back to where it originally lept from (inside the printf statement, looking at the function name, “funky_math”). Now, because the computer knows that funky_math has to return the number: a + b + 343, the computer will print out to the screen the contents of the printf statement followed by a + b + 343.

You see, in C, the computer does not read the code from top to bottom all the time. when you insert a function name into an area of code (also called “Calling a Function”), it instantly goes to the function and runs all the code from that function and executes what the code says to do before going back to where it had left off.

I hope that this made at least a little sense, the key thing to remember is that when a function is called, the computer will start executing whatever type of code is inside of that function.

Best of Luck in iOS development!