6 coding best practices for beginner programmers (original) (raw)

#include <stdio.h>

/**

• Finds the largest integer from the given array (inputAry)

• of size (inputArySize).

*/

int findLargest(int inputAry[], int inputArySize) {

//Assumption: array will have +ve elements.

//Thus, the largest is initialized with -1 (smallest possible value).

int largest = -1;

// Iterate through all elements of the array.

for (int loop = 0; loop < inputArySize; loop++) {

  //Replace largest with element greater than it.

  if (inputAry[loop] > largest) {

      largest = inputAry[loop];

  }

}

//returns the largest element of the array

return largest;

}

int main() {

int A[]={1, 4, 7, 13, 99, 0, 8, 5};

printf("\n\n\t%d\n\n", findLargest(A, 8));

return 0;

}