WHY ARRAYS START AT 0 IN SIMPLE TERMS

-
WHY ARRAYS START AT (0) IN SIMPLE TERMS⠀
⠀

"When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible!"
⠀
WTF MOMENT⠀
“Arrays start at 0”⠀
This is one of the first unusual things that beginners see in their programming journey. And most of us just memorize that fact and then laugh at memes about it. But seriously, why do array indices start at 0?⠀
⠀
DISCLAIMER⠀
Not all languages have zero-based arrays. Array indices in Fortran, COBOL, MATLAB, R, Julia, and Lua start at 1.⠀
⠀
BOTTOM LINE⠀
Last thing first, the choice of zero-based or one-based (or any number) indexing is arbitrary. It comes from language design itself. There is no rule. Each option has its pros and cons. But, let’s see why zero-based indexing is more common!⠀
⠀
HERITAGE⠀
In C, an array points to its location in the memory, and the index is simply an offset that specifies the distance from the start. The first element is at the start of the array so there is no distance. Therefore the offset is 0. Using 0 makes pointer arithmetic easy and convenient.⠀
⠀
There you have it!⠀
⠀
So, even you can design a programming language in which array indices start from -1.⠀
⠀
However, using 0 is the most popular and common one because of the advantages it brings to the table!⠀
⠀
Share this post with your programmer friends!⠀
⠀
⠀

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

My LHD share experience

-
Image
What a hackathon it is, totally amazing lot of idea, task and connection. For those of you don't know about it, LHD share is a week long hackathon organised by MLH (major League Hacking) where people participate from around the world. There are different guilds or team I am in EddieHub an inclusive community people are very support not just completing a task is not our ultimate goal but learning through each task is what matters.  Overall my experience with lhd share is super amazing. Can't wait to join next time. 
Read more

FRONT END DEVELOPER SKILLS YOU NEED TO KNOW⠀

-
Image
FRONT END DEVELOPER SKILLS YOU NEED TO KNOW⠀ ⠀ 👉HTML & CSS ⠀ HTML & CSS are the most basic languages of web coding. Without these two languages you can’t create a web page.⠀ ⠀ 👉JAVASCRIPT & J-QUERY⠀ JavaScript allows you to take ordinary web elements and make them interactive. It can be used alongside your HTML & CSS and is an extremely important tool for any web developer. J-Query is a JavaScript library, a collection of plugins that makes JavaScript development faster and easier.⠀ ⠀ 👉FRAMEWORKS⠀ JavaScript and CSS frameworks give a ready-made structure to your website. There are different types of frameworks available, learn at least one for JS & CSS.⠀ JS: AngularJS, Backbone, Ember & ReactJS⠀ CSS: Bootstrap, Foundation, Bulma⠀ ⠀ 👉RESPONSIVE DESIGN ⠀ One major role of a front end developer is to understand the responsive design principles and how to implement them on the coding side. It is a part of CSS and you must know how to use MediaQueries tech...
Read more

USEFUL CHROME EXTENSIONS FOR DEVELOPERS

-
USEFUL CHROME EXTENSIONS FOR DEVELOPERS ⠀ ⠀ "Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out & get it!" ⠀ FULL-PAGE SCREEN CAPTURE ⠀ Capture a screenshot of your computer page entirety and reliably without requisition any extra permissions.⠀ ⠀ DARK READER ⠀ Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing.⠀ ⠀ COLORZILLA ⠀ Get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program.⠀ ⠀ ONETAB ⠀ Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list and save up to 95% memory.⠀ ⠀ HTTPS EVERYWHERE ⠀ Encrypt the Web! Automatically use HTTPS security on many sites.⠀ ⠀ TALEND API TESTER⠀ Visually interact with REST, SOAP, and HTTP APIs.⠀ ⠀ WHATFONT⠀ The easiest way to identify fonts on web pages.⠀ ⠀ SEOQUAKE ⠀ SEOquakeprovide you with key SEO metrics, SEO Audit, and many others.⠀ ⠀ WAPPALYZER ⠀ Wappalyzer uncovers the technol...
Read more