range() and xrange() take a third parameter that specifies a step. So you can do the following.

range(10, 0, -1)

Which gives

[10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] 

But for iteration, you should really be using xrange instead. So,

xrange(10, 0, -1)

Note for Python 3 users: There are no separate range and xrange functions in Python 3, there is just range, which follows the design of Python 2's xrange.

You declared array on integers of 10 elements. And you are iterating from i=0 to i=10 and i=10 to i=0 that's 11 elements. Obviously it's an index out of bounds error.

Change your code to this

public class Reverse {

  public static void main(String [] args){
    int i, j;

    System.out.print("Countdown\n");

    int[] numIndex = new int[10]; // array with 10 elements.

    for (i = 0; i<10 ; i++) {  // from 0 to 9
      numIndex[i] = i;// element i = number of iterations (index 0=0, 1=1, ect.)
    }

    for (j=9; j>=0; j--){ // from 9 to 0
      System.out.println(numIndex[j]);//indexes should print in reverse order from here but it throws an exception?   
    } 

  }
}

Remember indices starts from 0.

.

How about:

for (unsigned i = n ; i-- > 0 ; )
{
  // do stuff with i
}

In bash or ksh, put the file names in an array, and iterate over that array in reverse order.

files=(/var/logs/foo*.log)
for ((i=${#files[@]}-1; i>=0; i--)); do
  bar "${files[$i]}"
done

The code above also works in zsh if the ksh_arrays option is set (it is in ksh emulation mode). There's a simpler method in zsh, which is to reverse the order of the matches through a glob qualifier:

for f in /var/logs/foo*.log(On); do bar $f; done

POSIX doesn't include arrays, so if you want to be portable, your only option to directly store an array of strings is the positional parameters.

set -- /var/logs/foo*.log
i=$#
while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do
  eval "f=\${$i}"
  bar "((i-1))
done