Help to understand Threads

[Leonard]

Just looking for clarification on what a thread is.

My understanding is that it involves more than one function (if that is a correct word to use) For instance if I input 2 numbers and ask the program
to

A) Add these 2 numbers and print them out at a particular location

-then

B) Ask for the numbers to both be squared then added and finally print out on the screen in another location.

*But what I would like to do is to do more complicated than the above tasks.

Is this a thread? Thanks for your help, it is appreciated!

[ropez]

Threads can be described as a mechanism to run several parts of a program /at the same time/ (simultaneously).

If I understood your question correctly, you don't really want threads, because you want to execute A /then/ B. With threads, you execute A and B at the same time.

[Grey Wolf]

If you want to know more about threads, try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_%28computer_science%29