The easy thing to do would be the following: start at the front end of the list, check the first element. If it's the thing I'm looking for, I'm done. It's there. If not, move on to the next element. And keep doing that.

从数组的第一个元素开始：,如果这是目标元素那么结束,如果不是的话就继续比较下面的元素，并一直这么比较下去,但如果，在某一点我发现我要寻找的数字。

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By saying first element remember we start at as the initial indexing point.

我们说的第一个元素指的是,最初的开始索引点。

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