Accumulator Tutorial

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Accumulator Tutorials

Adding and Counting

Two Accumulators

Checking an Array

Building Strings

Using a file

Multiple Variables

Searching for Values

Harder Examples

Reprise

An accumulating variable is a common programming pattern. It can be used to solve many simple problems such as counting, adding and finding the maximum/minimum.

Many of these tutorials use data taken from the text file http://progzoo.net/cia.txt