Parameters: Actual & Formal

Parameters

[c-weed]

Thank You! This video was short, informative, and easy to absorb. On top of that you have a very relaxing voice. I wish all educational videos are like this.

[GopalsudhaGopalsudha]

Thank you U r really great.... Live long and stay blessed.. Very nice explanation

[privatename]

As a CS major who learned the difference between parameters and arguments 30+ years ago, I see this terminology abused all the time. So many people say "passing parameters" which is a misnomer. They should be saying "passing arguments" ...to a method, function, or procedure that accepts parameters. I see so many people in the software industry (even company software architects) that still don't seem to know the difference and misuse the term. And this incorrect term is all over official documentation and literature. The source of this terminology abuse appears to be because someone "invented" the term "actual parameters" and "formal parameters" (probably some language compiler guy). "Actual parameters" (as you have described them in your video) are in fact just plan old *arguments". But parameters on the other hand have a very real and official meaning, as they are intrinsic to the internal method signature. So... because we have this "actual" vs. "formal" nonsense, people just use the term "parameters" everwhere, without thinking much about it. They should be saying "passing arguments", but they usually don't, because of the fuzzing globbing of the actual/formal doofus nomenclature.

Oh well, a thousand years will pass, and if humans survive and don't senselessly annihilate themselves through accident, political unrest, or war, then one thing is for sure: software folks will still be incorrectly saying "passing parameters".

[siddhartabhattacharya]

thank you .so nice and helpful it is for me.

[aydenrl]

Great video, just one question why is there a void before the methods?
Thanks :)