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.
-Sheila is having trouble even deciding whether or not to place a set of programming steps in a Sub procedure or a Function procedure,so her instructor tells her to ask herself a series of questions to make that decision.Which one of the following is NOT a question that the instructor suggests that she ask herself?
A) Will the program be easier to read if the code is placed in a separate procedure?
B) Does the proposed code perform a single task?
C) Does this task require more than eight or nine programming statements?
D) Can the Sub procedure or Function procedure perform its processing by receiving data as arguments, and by returning data either using the Return statement or by using ByRef arguments?

Question

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The instructor suggests that Sheila ask herself the following questions when deciding whether to use a Sub or Function procedure: 
- Will the program be easier to read if the code is placed in a separate procedure?
- Does the proposed code perform a single task?
- Can the Sub procedure or Function procedure perform its processing by receiving data as arguments, and by returning data either using the Return statement or by using ByRef arguments? 
Option C ("Does this task require more than eight or nine programming statements?") is not one of the questions suggested by the instructor.

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