Sometimes when you are programming you might need to use the same piece of code
over and over again.  It would make your program messy if you did this, so
code that you want to use multiple times is put in a procedure or a
function.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
The difference between a function and a procedure is that a function returns
a value whereas a procedure does not.  So if your program has multiple
Yes/No questions then you might want to make a function which returns Yes or No
to any question.
Procedures and Functions both take parameters. These are values that the
procedure is passed when it is called.  An example of this would be...
... drawBob (x,y); ...
This would call the procedure drawBob. It passes it the values x and y which
the procedure will use as Bob's coordinates.  The drawBob procedure would
look something like this...
procedure drawBob (x,y : integer); begin <Code here>
end.
Somewhere in the code it would use x and y.  Notice that x and y are
declared like variables except for the fact that they are in the procedure's
header.  If you wanted different types of parameters, eg. integers
and strings, then you must separate them by semi-colons like this...
procedure doSomething (x,y : integer; name : string);
var
<variables used in the procedure>
begin
<Code here>
end.
There might be a situation where you want the procedure to modify the values
passed to it. Normally if you did this in the procedures it modifies the
parameters but it does not modify the variables that the parameter's values were
given from. Anyway if you want to do this you need to put var
in front of the parameters. So if you wanted to do something which changed x and
y you would make a procedure like so...
procedure modifyXY (var x,y:integer);
begin
<Modification of x and y>
end.
So by now you should know how to use a procedure. Next we will talk about
Functions.
A function is like a procedure except it returns a value.  You could also
think of a function as a dynamic variable, ie it gives itself a value
when you have a reference to it. An example function is shown below which
returns the day name from a number between one and seven. The numbers represent
the days in the week of course.
function dayName (dayNumber : integer): String;
begin
Notice dayName assigns itself a value. The type of value that is
to be assigned to it is declared in the Function header after the parameters by
going, ': <variable type>' which is in this case, string.
