Given an integer array nums, calculate and return the alternating sum of its elements.

The alternating sum of an array is computed by adding the elements at even indices and subtracting the elements at odd indices.

Constraints:

• $1 \leq$ nums.length $\leq 100$

• $1 \leq$ nums[i] $\leq 100$

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