Arrays are arguably the most useful thing I have learned in CompSci so far. They have allowed me to store enough data within a structure to make Java be actually practical and useful in everyday applications. The example that most readily comes to mind would be the Sound Lab. I learned a lot from that about how to manipulate arrays, and about the usefulness of arrays.That program was the first one in which I actually felt the program would have utility to a consumer. I thought it was a well designed lab that taught me how to edit values of an array to accomplish what I wanted to do.
Here is an acrostic I made about arrays:
A - Arrays
R - R
R - Rays of Sunshine
A - And
Y - YOLO-
S - swag
I feel as if this acrostic accurately describes how I feel about arrays, because they seemed like a ray of sunshine in an otherwise dark language. Before, I had thought that java wasn't applicable to anything in the real world, but this lab helped me reconsider my position on the entire language.
