printSzia

printSzia is a fictional or teaching placeholder function used in introductory programming materials to illustrate how a program can output text. It is not part of standard libraries in common languages, but it appears in tutorials as a simple, memorable example of input/output.

The name combines the English verb print with the Hungarian greeting Szia, which means informal “hi.” The choice of a non-English word emphasizes the international, cross-cultural nature of programming education and keeps the example concise.

In pseudocode, a typical usage is: printSzia(). When invoked, it outputs the string “Szia” to the standard output and generally ends with a newline, depending on the environment. Some tutorial variants may describe optional parameters to adjust behavior, such as repeating the output or altering newline handling. These variations are primarily for illustration; in real programming languages, similar results are achieved with the language’s standard printing or logging facilities, e.g., print('Szia') in Python or console.log('Szia') in JavaScript.

History and usage notes indicate that printSzia appears mainly in educational content and online snippets as a lightweight, easy-to-remember example rather than a formal language feature. It serves to teach basic concepts of output without introducing language-specific syntax.

See also: Hello world, print function, standard output, I/O basics.