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Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming, 8th Edition
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Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming, 8th Edition

by Walter Savitch
February 2017
Beginner
1056 pages
28h 57m
English
Pearson
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Chapter Summary

  • An array can be thought of as a collection of variables all of the same type.

  • Arrays are objects that are created using the operator new, although the syntax is slightly different from that used when creating objects of a class.

  • Array elements are numbered starting with 0 and ending with 1 less than the length of the array. If a is an array, a[i] is an indexed variable of the array. The index i must have a value greater than or equal to 0 and strictly less than a.length, the array’s length. If i has any other value when you run your program, an array index out-of-bounds error will occur, causing an error message.

  • When an indexed variable is used as an argument to a method, it is treated just like any other argument whose data ...

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