Java Program to Find Sum of Array Elements

An array is a group of like-typed variables that are referred to by a common name. Arrays of any type can be created and may have one or more dimensions. A specific element in an array is accessed by its index. An array can be defined in C with the following syntax:

int Arr[5] = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50};
/* here 10,20,30,40,50 are the elements at indices 0,1,2,3,4 respectively */

In this example, array Arr is a collection of 5 integers. Each integer can be identified and accessed by its index. The indices of the array start with 0. So, the first element of the array will have index 0, the next will have index 1 and so on.

Sum of an array is defined as the sum of all elements present in the array. For example, if the array is [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], the sum of this array is 1+2+3+4+5 = 15.

Write a Java program that reads an array of N elements, calculates the sum of those N elements, and displays the result to the standard output or the screen.

Enter the size of array and then enter all the elements of that array. Now we calculate the sum of elements of the array with the help of for loop.

Here is the source code of the Java Program to Accept Array Elements and Calculate Sum. The Java program is successfully compiled and run on a Windows system. The program output is also shown below.

1. The program starts by importing the java.util.Scanner class, which will be used to read user input.
2. In the main method, the program declares two integer variables: “n” and “sum“. “n” will be used to store the number of elements in the array and “sum” will be used to store the sum of all elements in the array.
3. The program creates an instance of the Scanner class named “s” and uses it to prompt the user to enter the number of elements they want in the array.
4. The user’s input is then read using the nextInt() method of the Scanner class and stored in the “n” variable.
5. The program creates an integer array named “a” with a length of “n“.
6. The program then prompts the user to enter all the elements of the array and reads each element using a for loop that iterates from 0 to n-1.
7. Within the loop, the user’s input is stored in the “a” array and added to the “sum” variable.
8. Once all elements have been read and added to the sum, the program prints the sum of all elements in the array to the console using the System.out.println() method.

Time Complexity: O(n)
In the above program, a loop is executed to traverse the loop, so the time complexity is O(n).

Space Complexity: O(n)
Space is required to store the array elements, so the space complexity is O(n).

Testcase 1: To find the sum of array elements, enter “4” as the size and the array elements 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 as input.

$ javac Array_Sum.java
$ java Array_Sum
 
Enter size of the array: 5
Enter array elements:
1 2 3 4 5
Sum of the array is: 15

Testcase 2: To find the sum of array elements, enter “5” as the size and the array elements 4, 2, 1 and 3 as input.

$ javac Array_Sum.java
$ java Array_Sum
 
Enter size of the array: 4
Enter array elements:
4 2 1 3
Sum of the array is: 10

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