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A method is a series of statements combined into one block inside a class and given a name. In the Cold War days, these were called sub-routines, and many other languages call them functions. However, the main difference between a method and a function is that a method has to be associated with a class, whereas a function does not.
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Davis, A.L. (2020). Methods. In: Modern Programming Made Easy. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5569-8_7
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