returns the highest number in the array explanation needed

eurico · January 6th, 2011, 11:38 PM

I am quite new to C# and programming in general. I am trying to understand the code bellow. thank you in advance.

problem interpreting the above lines

Code:

static int MaxValue(int[] intArray)
        {
            
            int maxVal = intArray[0];
//WHERE DOES IT GET THE VALUE OF intArray.Length
            for (int i = 1; i < intArray.Length; i++) 
                
            {
// WHATS DOES intArray[i] means specially the [i]
                if (intArray[i] > maxVal)
                    maxVal = intArray[i];
               
            }

This the part that calls the second function the firts example on the book was a simple function call: Write();

why on here is like this??
int maxVal = MaxValue(myArray);

This the whole code

Code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Ch06Ex02
{
    class Program
    {
        static int MaxValue(int[] intArray)
        {
            
            int maxVal = intArray[0];
            for (int i = 1; i < intArray.Length; i++)
                
            {
               
                if (intArray[i] > maxVal)
                    maxVal = intArray[i];
               
            }

            
            return maxVal;

        }
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            
            int[] myArray = { 1, 8, 3, 6, 2, 5, 9, 3, 0, 2 };
            int maxVal = MaxValue(myArray);
           
            Console.WriteLine("The maximum value in myArray is {0}", maxVal);
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}