Beginner Java - looping through an array

In your main method get the return value from max method in one variable then print it

 public static void main (String [] args) {
    int[] numbers = new int[] {9, 2, 15, 2, 22, 10, 6};
   int val = max(numbers);
   System.out.println(val);
    }

Bingo...

You have to print out the number as in

System.out.println(max(numbers));

Alternatively you can assign it to an int variable and then do stuff with it:

int maxNumber = max(numbers);

  public class fun {
        public static void main (String [] args) {
        int[] numbers = new int[] {9, 2, 15, 2, 22, 10, 6};
        int maxNum = max(numbers); //change this
System.out.println(maxNum);
        }

        public static int max(int[] m) {
            int length = m.length;
            int counter = 1;
            int currMax = m[0];
            while (counter <= (length - 1)){ //change this
                if (m[counter] > currMax){
                currMax = m[counter];
                }
                counter = counter + 1;
            }
            return currMax;
        }
    }

The iterration itself could work properly if you would iterrate through the entire Array. You are missing the last index of your Array. So it won't compare the Array[on_last_index] with the currentMax value anymore.

To solve this simple problem all you need to do is to change the condition in the while loop.

while(counter <= length-1) { ... }

So let me try to explain it to you. If you create an Array of follow elements inside it:

numbers = new int[]{9, 2, 15, 2, 22, 10, 6};

then every single value in your array got it's own index. For instance if you want to get the first element of your array, then all you have to do is get the element of the array on index 0. 0 because it is the first element that you want to pick => index 0 is the first index for the first element in your array. Now at your example you got an array of the size 7 => you got 7 elements inside your array. But remember how to get elements of your array? Right! You can get elements by their indizes. The first element got the index 0, the secound 1,...,the last 6. 6 becuase we started at 0, so if you want to iterrate threw an array then always from 0 to array.length-1.