So many hypothetical / non visual explanations... can someone please explain this to me as if I was a 4 year old?

To a 4-year old I might say: "These funny words are how you tell a computer what to do."

I couldn't resist — but I'm not an iOS programmer so I'll leave the real explanation to one of them.

Hi Ryan

Could you pls copy-paste some of the exact code you have questions about? I'll be glad to help you out if I can.

Gr Peter

Methods are essentially struct-specific functions that allow us to do more with our structs. So, instead of a struct just containing simple data points (age: Int, name: String), methods allow us to massage and do work on that data.

So, if methods are struct-specific functions, you can basically do anything in them that you could do in a function! Loops, loops within loops, etc.

Let's say we want to create some objects for a few people and have each one provide a basic greeting. We can do that by creating a struct called Person. We can pass in the properties (name, age) of the person when we create an instance of it, and we can then utilize the greeting method to provide a personalized greeting for each person object.

struct Person {
    let name: String
    let age: Int

    func greeting() -> String{
        return("Hello, my name is \(name) and I'm \(age)")
    }
}

let ryan = Person(name: "Ryan", age: 30)
ryan.greeting()
"Hello, my name is Ryan and I'm 30!"

let jill = Person(name: "Jill", age: 22)
jill.greeting()
"Hello, my name is Jill and I'm 22!"

By calling the greeting method on our objects, we're able to do something meaningful to them. Don't worry, OOP can be pretty daunting at first, but the pieces will fall in to place eventually - keep practicing!