CASE
Critical Thinking Questions
Case 7-1
Of all of the concepts Sheila has learned so far, she is having the hardest time understanding the use of procedures, including when and how to use them. She asks her instructor for some additional clarification.
-Which of the following is not a true statement her instructor makes to Sheila?
A) The Sub procedure should perform a single, defined task.
B) Procedures that perform multiple tasks tend to become large and difficult to design and code.
C) A Function procedure must perform reasonably substantial processing.
D) It is good practice to place a procedure call statement in a calling procedure and have the called procedure contain one or two program statements.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

It is not good practice to have a called procedure contain only one or two program statements. The purpose of a procedure is to perform a specific task or group of tasks, and having a procedure that only contains one or two statements defeats this purpose. It is better to include multiple related statements within a procedure to make it more cohesive and easier to reuse.

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