Programming for Game Design: A Hands-On Guide with Godot

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W. Wang, T. WalcottProgramming for Game Designhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0190-7_8

8. Understanding Arrays

Wallace Wang¹   and Tonnetta Walcott²

(1)

San Diego, CA, USA

(2)

El Cajon, CA, USA

 

Every program needs to store data, and that data usually gets stored in one or more variables. However, the more data a program needs to store, the more variables you need to create. Rather than create multiple variables, it’s much easier to use an array.

An array essentially acts like a single variable but with the ability to store any number of items. A number of items are grouped together, making arrays handy for storing data in one place that share a common characteristic. ...