I don't understand this code from the method return values video.

Hi there, Tucker Kunkle! So we created an Add() function which adds two numbers. Simple enough. Now, we could choose to display the result right there, but what we're doing here is asking it to send us back the result from adding those. That's what return does. It ships us back something.

So here:

double total = Add(3, 5);

We're declaring a variable total of type double. We want the result to be whatever adding 3 and 5 is. So we issue a call to Add(). Many developers say "call the function", but you could also use the words execute/run/invoke. When we call it we send 3 and 5. The method returns 8. So now our total has a value of 8.

Then we use Console.WriteLine(total); to write out the value.

The key things to understand here are that during an assignment, whatever is on the right side of the equal sign happens first. So, in this case, we call/execute/run/invoke the Add() which sends back to us the result (8) which is then assigned to the variable total.

Hope this helps!