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authorDave Gauer <dave@ratfactor.com>2021-02-07 11:06:51 -0500
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Consistent instructions and examples
I started off with "hints" that required the poor student to piece together the information from incomplete bits. A complete example is like a picture that is worth 1000 words and far clearer.
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@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
//
-// Now let's use a function that takes a parameter.
+// Now let's create a function that takes a parameter. Here's an
+// example that takes two parameters. As you can see, parameters
+// are declared just like an other types ("name": "type"):
+//
+// fn myFunction( number: u8, is_lucky: bool ) {
+// ...
+// }
//
const std = @import( "std" );
@@ -13,16 +19,13 @@ pub fn main() void {
}
//
-// Oops! We seem to have forgotten something here. Function
-// parameters look like this:
-//
-// fn myFunction( number: u8, is_lucky: bool ) {
-// ...
-// }
-//
-// As you can see, we declare the type of the parameter, just
-// like we declare the types of variables, with a colon ":".
+// Please give this function the correct input parameter(s).
+// You'll need to figure out the parameter name and type that we're
+// expecting. The output type has already been specified for you.
//
fn twoToThe(???) u32 {
return std.math.pow(u32, 2, my_number);
+ // std.math.pow(type, a, b) takes a numeric type and two numbers
+ // of that type and returns "a to the power of b" as that same
+ // numeric type.
}