Find Largest Element of an Array in C CPP Java Python Javascript

C
CPP
Python
Java
JavaScript

#include <stdio.h>
 
/*  This is our function to find the largest
 * element in the array arr[]
 */
int largest_element(int arr[], int num)
{
    int i, max_element;
    
    // Initialization to the first array element
    max_element = arr[0];
 
    /* Here we are comparing max_element with
     * all other elements of array to store the 
     * largest element in the max_element variable
     */
    for (i = 1; i < num; i++)         
        if (arr[i] > max_element)
            max_element = arr[i];
 
    return max_element;
}
 
int main()
{
    int arr[] = {1, 24, 145, 20, 8, -101, 300};
    int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]);
    printf("Largest element of array is %d", largest_element(arr, n));
    return 0;
}