Understanding Chapter 11, Working with Arrays, is essential to understanding the concepts presented in this chapter. Please read through and ensure you understand that chapter before reading this one.
In Chapter 11, Working with Arrays, we explored a one-dimensional array, where an array is a contiguous group of the same data type accessed via a basename and an index. In this chapter, we will extend the concept of arrays from one dimension to many dimensions. Multi-dimensional arrays occur in a myriad of objects that we deal with in daily life—from a simple checkers board or chessboard, a multiplication table, or the pixels on a screen to more complex three-dimensional objects, such as volumetric spaces. ...
