A spreadsheet analogy usually works well. A single dimension array is like 1 row in a spreadsheet. The array name is the row label (ex. "A") and the column numbers let you cycle through values - A1, A2, A3...
Most people will get that since spreadsheets are so common. And you can build from there to 2 dimensional arrays, since they also map to spreadsheet rows & columns. Depending on what you are teaching you need to note that array values start at position 0, not 1; which always leads to some referencing mistakes at first, but it's not that difficult a concept to get. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39343 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
