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This document discusses arrays in Java. It explains that arrays allow storing multiple values of the same type in a sequence. Elements in an array are indexed starting at 0. When declaring an array, the type is specified followed by square brackets. An array is instantiated using the new keyword along with a size in square brackets. The values can also be initialized directly within curly braces. Once created, the size of an array is fixed and cannot be changed.

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Slides Arrays Arrays Part 1

This document discusses arrays in Java. It explains that arrays allow storing multiple values of the same type in a sequence. Elements in an array are indexed starting at 0. When declaring an array, the type is specified followed by square brackets. An array is instantiated using the new keyword along with a size in square brackets. The values can also be initialized directly within curly braces. Once created, the size of an array is fixed and cannot be changed.

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Arrays

Lets look at ways to store, and manipulate, multiple values of the same type.
The most common way to do this, in Java, is with an array.

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Arrays

An array is a data structure, that allows you to store a sequence of values, all of the same
type.
You can have arrays for any primitive type, like ints, doubles, booleans, or any of the 8
primitives we've learned about.
You can also have arrays for any class.

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Elements in an array are indexed, starting at 0.


If we have an array, storing five names, conceptually it looks as shown here.
Index
e. 0 1 2 3 4

Stored values in an array with 5 elements "Andy" "Bob" "Charlie" "David" "Eve"

The first element is at index 0, and is Andy.


The last element in this array is at index 4, and has the String value Eve.

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Declaring an Array
When you declare an array, you first specify the type of the
elements you want in the array.

Then you include square brackets in the declaration, which is the


key for Java, to identify the variable as an array. Array Variable Declaration

The square brackets can follow the type as shown in the first two
examples.

This is much more common.

The brackets can also be after the variable name, as shown in the
last example.

You don't specify a size, in the array declaration itself.

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Instantiating an Array
Array Creation Object Creation

One way to instantiate the array, is with the new keyword, much as we've seen, with most
of the classes we've used to date, with the exception of String.
On this slide, we have an array declaration on the left of the equals sign, and then an array
creation expression on the right side.
For comparison, I'm showing you a typical array variable declaration, and a class instance,
or object creation expression, using the StringBuilder class.

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Instantiating an Array
Array Creation Object Creation

They look pretty similar, but there are two major differences.
Square brackets are required when using the new keyword, and a size is specified between
them. So in this example, there will be 10 elements in the array.
An array instantiation doesn't have a set of parentheses, meaning we can't pass data to a
constructor for an array.
In fact, using parentheses with an array instantiation, gives you a compiler error.

Invalid Array Creation – Compile Error because of ()

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An Array is NOT Resizable.

The size of an array, once created, is fixed.


In this case, integerArray will have 10 elements.
Array Creation

You can't change the size of an array, after the array is instantiated.
We can't add or delete elements, we can only assign values to one of the ten elements in
this array, in this example.

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The array initializer
An array initializer, makes the job of instantiating and initializing a small array, much easier.
The array initializer

In this example, you can see we still use the new keyword, and have int, with the square
brackets.
But here we specify the values, we want the array to be initialized to, in a comma delimited
list, in curly braces.
Because these values are specified, the length of the array can be determined, so we don't
specify the size in the square brackets.
And actually, Java provides an even simpler way to do this.

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The array initializer as an anonymous array
Java allows us to drop new int[], from the expression, as we show here.
This is known as an anonymous array.
Here we're showing examples for both an int array, as well as a String array.
The array initializer

An anonymous array initializer, can only be used in a declaration statement.

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