为了教授回调，你必须先教授指针。一旦学生理解了指向变量的指针的概念，回调的概念就会变得更容易。假设您使用的是C/ c++，可以遵循这些步骤。

First show your students how to use and manipulate variables using pointers alongside using the normal variable identifiers. Then teach them there are things that can be done only with pointers(like passing a variable by reference). Then tell them how executable code or functions are just like some other data(or variables) in the memory. So, functions also have addresses or pointers. Then show them how functions can be called with function pointers and tell these are called callbacks. Now, the question is, why all these hassle for calling some functions? What is the benefit? Like data pointers, function pointer aka callbacks has some advantages over using normal identifiers. The first one is, function identifiers or function names cannot be used as normal data. I mean, you cannot make a data structure with functions(like an array or a linked list of functions). But with callbacks, you can make an array, a linked list or use them with other data like in dictionary of key-value pairs or trees, or any other things. This is a powerful benefit. And other benefits are actually child of this one. The most common use of callbacks is seen in event driver programming. Where one or more functions are executed based on some incoming signal. With callbacks, a dictionary can be maintained to map signals with callbacks. Then the input signal resolution and execution of corresponding code become much easier. The second use of callbacks coming in my mind is higher order functions. The functions which takes other functions as input arguments. And to send functions as arguments, we need callbacks. An example can be a function which take an array and a callback. Then it performs the callback on each of the item of the array and return the results in another array. If we pass the function a doubling callback, we get a doubled valued array. If we pass a squaring callback, we get squares. For square roots, just send appropriate callback. This cannot be done with normal functions.

可能还有更多的事情。让学生参与进来，他们就会发现。希望这能有所帮助。

用电话系统来描述回调是最容易的。函数调用类似于打电话给某人，问她一个问题，得到答案，然后挂断电话;添加回调改变了这个类比，这样在问她一个问题之后，你也可以告诉她你的名字和电话号码，这样她就可以给你回电话，告诉你答案。——保罗·雅库比 、《c++中的回调实现》

通常，我们将变量发送给函数:function1(var1, var2)。

假设，你想在它被作为参数给出之前处理它:

这是一种回调类型，其中function2执行一些代码并将变量返回给初始函数。

编辑:回调这个词最常见的意思是一个函数作为参数传递给另一个函数，并在稍后的时间点被调用。这些思想存在于允许高阶函数的语言中，即将函数视为一等公民，通常用于异步编程中。onready dosomething()。在这里，只有当它准备好了，事情才会发生。

回呼是一个贴了邮票的回邮信封。当你调用一个函数时，就像发送一封信一样。如果您希望该函数调用另一个函数，则以引用或地址的形式提供该信息。

回调函数:

我们定义了一个名为callback的回调函数，给它一个参数otherFunction，并在函数体中调用它。

function callback(otherFunction){
    otherFunction();
}

当我们调用回调函数时，它需要一个类型为函数的参数，因此我们使用匿名函数调用它。但是，如果实参不是function类型，则会产生错误。

callback(function(){console.log('SUCCESS!')}); 
callback(1); // error

烤披萨的例子。 烤炉 披萨底，上面有配料 这里，烤箱是回调函数。 披萨的配料是另一个功能。

值得注意的是，不同的披萨原料可以做出不同类型的披萨，但烘焙披萨的烤箱是一样的。 这在某种程度上是回调函数的工作，它不断期望具有不同功能的函数，以产生不同的自定义结果。

A callback is a function that will be called by a second function. This second function doesn't know in advance what function it will call. So the identity of the callback function is stored somewhere, or passed to the second function as a parameter. This "identity," depending on the programming language, might be the address of the callback, or some other sort of pointer, or it might be the name of the function. The principal is the same, we store or pass some information that unambiguously identifies the function.

当时间到来时，第二个函数可以调用回调，根据当时的情况提供参数。它甚至可以从一组可能的回调中选择回调。编程语言必须提供某种语法，允许第二个函数调用回调函数，并知道它的“标识”。

这种机制有许多可能的用途。通过回调，函数的设计者可以通过调用所提供的任何回调来定制函数。例如，排序函数可能将回调函数作为参数，而这个回调函数可能是用于比较两个元素以决定哪个元素先出现的函数。

顺便说一下，根据编程语言的不同，上面讨论中的“函数”一词可能会被“块”、“闭包”、“lambda”等取代。