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Learn how to define scope, create reusable functions, and contain data types with structures in C.
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Continue your C learning journey! Dive into functions, which are groups of instructions that are given a name to be used elsewhere in the code, often repeatedly. Then learn about structures, which allow you to collect multiple data types into one single data type.
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