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

IMHO people just wanted to invent new word for easier communication between programmers when they wanted to refer to functions inside objects.

If you are saying methods you mean functions inside the class. If you are saying functions you mean simply functions outside the class.

The truth is that both words are used to describe functions. Even if you used it wrongly nothing wrong happens. Both words describe well what you want to achieve in your code.

Function is a code that has to play a role (a function) of doing something. Method is a method to resolve the problem.

It does the same thing. It is the same thing. If you want to be super precise and go along with the convention you can call methods as the functions inside objects.