{"id":565,"date":"2020-09-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2020-09-03T15:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:56:21","slug":"chapter-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A tradition that I started with my first Joshua Jones novel is that the first chapter is always zero. If you’re a programmer, you get this right away. If you’re not, you may be wondering why I do that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In programming, an array of “things” is always counted with a zero: zero, one, two, three. Here’s a good definition of the programming construct called array<\/a>. Okay, so arrays start with zero because they are referencing a spot in memory. Got it. So, why do I start with Chapter 0? Because, chapters are but a string of similar items contained in a book. So you could define a book in programming terms as an array of chapters<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the above image, I’ve created a book array of chapters and it starts with 0 and ends with 7. I then add another chapter to the book array, by referencing its place in the array. It’s in the 9th spot, counting from 0. When I print out the book array, it now has 8 chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at it like that, it makes perfect sense. Think like a programmer. Because the Protagonist is a programmer and this is a Cybercrime novel, not a Police Procedural. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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