Welcome @Jeremiah_Zirkle welcome to the forum! It is a lovely place where you can share all kinds of stuff (appropriate of course), share bugs, and even get assistance for code! We suggest that you review this topic which shows all essentials of this board! And we suggest you review this topic which shows how to post your code correctly! Thanks!! 
If you’re in Python, then yes, you have to put () at the end for the function to work.
Lydia