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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Creating Reusable Code with Functions Review Creating Reusable Code with Functions

Hui Zheng
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Example with functions

I had recently finished watching a video on the topic of functions. The example that was given in the video generated a series of small circles in different colors. I was looking for that video from the tracks I had completed, but I was not able to find it there. I do want to go back to that video since I had a question I wanted to ask regarding the example in that video. I remember the instructor passed in the word message as a parameter to a function that was called to print out the html strings. But I didn't quite understand why the word message was passed in as a parameter, i had only seen numbers or variable that stored numbers(var upper = 10000;) were passed in as parameters in other previous examples

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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
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Is this the video?

Hui Zheng
Hui Zheng
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Hui Zheng
Hui Zheng
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Yes, that was the one professor. By the way why was the word message passed in as a parameter in one of the functions. I know the function was used to print the values, but I had never seen a word been passed in as a parameter in the previous examples. I had seen numeric values been passed in to be used in a formula or variables that stored numeric values got passed in as parameters. Is message a keyword that is specifically used in this particular function? Thanks