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

To a first order approximation, a method (in C++ style OO) is another word for a member function, that is a function that is part of a class.

In languages like C/C++ you can have functions which are not members of a class; you don't call a function not associated with a class a method.