Arrays Declaration Construction initialization An array is a data structure that defines an indexed collection of fixed number of homogeneous data elements. Once the size of array is fixed there is no chance of increasing or decreasing its size. Array show wonderful performance when compared with the collections. Each item in an array is called an element, and each element is accessed by its numerical index. As shown in the preceding illustration, numbering begins with 0. The 9th element, for example, would therefore be accessed at index 8. Declaration of array: (Declaring a Variable to Refer to an Array) // declares an array of integers int[] anArray; An array declaration has two components: the array's type and the array's name An array's type is written as type [] , where type is the data type of the contained elements; the brackets are special symbols indicating that this variable holds an array.The size of the array is...