Learn to Program with Small Basic

TextWindow.WriteLine("Enter 5 numbers. Press Enter after each one.")
For N = 1 To 5
thunderCat[N] = TextWindow.ReadNumber()
EndFor
This technique is very useful for storing lots of data from a user. What
other collections of data might you ask for? How about breakfastMenu,
favoriteGames, bestPasswords, funnyJokes, or frozenNames?
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Write a program that fills an array called skeletor with even integers from 20 to
40 (for example, skeletor[1] = 20, skeletor[2] = 22, . . . ).
Displaying Arrays
Let’s say we have an array named age that holds the ages of three brothers,
like this:
age[1] = 14
age[2] = 15
age[3] = 16
You can display the contents of this array in two ways. The first and easiest
way is to pass the array’s name to the WriteLine() method, like this:
TextWindow.WriteLine(age)
Here’s the output of this statement:
1=14;2=15;3=16;
This statement displays the elements of the array on a single line separated
by semicolons. Each token in this string shows the index and the value
of the array’s element at that index. Can you see now where the array’s string
initializer syntax came from?
If you want to display the array in an easier-to-read format, you can use
a For loop to display each element of the array in its own row:
For N = 1 To 3
TextWindow.WriteLine("age[" + N + "] = " + age[N])
EndFor
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