What's the difference between a method and a function?

Question

Can someone provide a simple explanation of methods vs. functions in OOP context?

Answer 1

Methods on a class act on the instance of the class, called the object.

class Example
{
   public int data = 0; // Each instance of Example holds its internal data. This is a "field", or "member variable".

   public void UpdateData() // .. and manipulates it (This is a method by the way)
   {
      data = data + 1;
   }

   public void PrintData() // This is also a method
   {
      Console.WriteLine(data);
   }
}

class Program
{
   public static void Main()
   {
       Example exampleObject1 = new Example();
       Example exampleObject2 = new Example();

       exampleObject1.UpdateData();
       exampleObject1.UpdateData();

       exampleObject2.UpdateData();

       exampleObject1.PrintData(); // Prints "2"
       exampleObject2.PrintData(); // Prints "1"
   }
}