Greetings! Welcome to our lesson today, where we'll unravel a fascinating aspect of array manipulation. Here's the question: How would you traverse an array, not from the beginning to the end, or vice versa, but from the center outward in either direction? Today's lesson delves into this concept using TypeScript, which enhances the coding experience with its powerful type system. Brace yourself for a captivating learning journey focused on both logic and type safety.

Our task is to produce a new array, given an array of integers, that starts from the center of the original array and alternates direction towards both ends. That is, the first element of our new array will be the middle element of the original one.

After defining the starting point, we will alternate between elements to the left and to the right of this center until all elements have been included. If the length of the initial array is even, we first take the element to the left of the center, then the one to the right of the center, and proceed with the alternation sequence.

For example, given numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], the process is as follows:

• Identify the middle element: 3 is the middle element of the array.
• Start the new array with 3.
• Alternate outward: First take 2 (left of 3), then 4 (right of 3).