In a past lesson, you learned that a variable is a place that can store
or hold a single quantity of information. An array is also a variable, but is different in that
it can hold more than one value, all under the same variable name.
With normal variables, you can hold just one value as in score=10, in which case the variable score
hold the single value of 10. With an array, you can hold many values, as you'll learn in this lesson.
First, we have to be able to tell the computer when we want a variable to be an array, and what values
to hold in it. This is done like this:
variable={val1,val2,val3,val4,val5,...}
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Now you try. Fix the print statement, so that it will display the value of the 1st element in the array.
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See your results here:
This code will not run! In this example, we declare variable a to be an array, and fill it with a numbers.
We'd like to be able to display any element of the array that we wish, but the print statement needs
some fixing.
Given that the $i^{th}$ element of an array named a is access via the construct
a[i] , what will you put into the print statement to have it display the
1st element of our array, called a? If you figure that out, how about the
2nd element? 3rd?
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