👉 Fording is a concept in computer science and engineering that refers to the process of storing data in an array or list, which can be accessed by any index position from either end of the array. It's used when you want to access elements at different positions within the same array but without having to traverse the entire array one step at a time. In other words, fording is like using a "for loop" with an extra parameter: instead of iterating over each element in the array individually,