C# Primer Plus

Chapter 10. ARRAYS PART I: ARRAY ESSENTIALS

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

• Why the idea of putting many values of the same type into the same data structure (the array) is so compelling

• How to declare, define, initialize, and apply one-dimensional arrays

• How arrays are effectively accessed with loop statements

• The iteration statement foreach and how this statement, compared to the for-loop, can simplify access to an array

• The implications of the fact that an array is a reference type.

• How arrays can be provided as arguments to methods and as return values from methods

• The implications of letting the values of an array be references to objects

• The ability to let arrays be instance variables of classes and the associated advantages ...