Chapter

Arrays, Collections & Dynamic

From ComputerScienceOne by Dr Chris Bourke

Concepts

1. What are arrays used for?

   "Rarely do we ever deal with a single piece of data in a program. Instead, most data is made up of a collection of similar elements. A program to compute grades would be designed to operate on an enti

2. What types of elements can arrays contain?

   "Some languages only allow you to store the same types of elements in an array. For example, an integer array would only be able to store integers, an array of floating-point numbers would only be abl

3. How do programming languages implement arrays?

   "Some languages treat arrays as full-fledged object types that not only hold elements, but have methods that can be called to manipulate or transform the contents of the array. Other languages treat a