[CSI] Header File / Functions

[Mikhail Nesterenko]

> I had a question regarding the Battleship program. If our function
> prototypes are in a header file, is it stylisticly okay to have int
> main first, than the function definitions? We may have gone over
> this in CS1A, but I wanted to be sure.

Not only is it okay, but it is the preferred style. Your
battleship.cpp and game.cpp  should look a follows:

// -----------battleship.cpp------------------
#include "battleship.h"  // prototypes all functions to be defined later
...

// function definitions in the order of importance, implementation or,
// preferred, grouped by purpose as in the header file

// first function definition
void initialize(Ship ships[]){
  ....
}

// ----------------game.cpp-------------------
#include "game.h" // prototypes all functions to be invoked later

// first defined function is main()
int main(){
   ... 
}


Thanks,
-- 
Mikhail