Final Exam - Study Guide
In addition to reviewing the material covered for the first two midterm exams you should also focus on the material presented in chapter 5 (file i/o), section 6.1 (structures), chapters 7 (for loops), 10 (arrays) and 11 (strings and vectors), and section 12.1 (pointers) of your textbook. You should also look over the following sections of Dale Haverstock's online notes:
You can also refer to the C/C++ Reference guide at http://cppreference.com/
or you may wish to go through the Input/Output with files and Compound Data Types parts of the online
tutorial available at http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
Topic List
Vocabulary - talking like a programmer....
Be able to answer questions such as a "What is", "Describe", "Explain", etc. or be able to write important
information about each of the following
- When does an input stream evaluate to false?
- The two names relating to a file in a program,
their meaning and purpose
- What happens when a file is opened
- what is a C-string and how is it different than a C++ string
- Array indexing
- C++ String variable type
- C++ Vector object type
-
struct
- Pointer
- The
* operator
- The
& operator
- The 4 things to keep in mind when working with pointers.
- Given a variable/object
named
x,
of type pointer to
T, where
T is any type,
what does
*x in an expression or statement denote,
what operations can be performed on/with it
- What does an array name by itself represents in an expression
Writing/Executing/Explaining Code - walking (coding) like a programmer...
You may be given a snipet of code to execute by hand and explain or
you may be asked to write code relating to the items below
-
for loop
- Arrays,
index/subscript,
using
for loops with arrays
- C++
string -
defining, output, input,
assignment,
concatenation (+), append (+=),
index/subscript, compare, length
- C++
string -
find, substring
- execute given code only
-
vectors -
defining, indexing,
using push_back(),
size,
using for loops with vectors
- Given a specification for a simple struct:
- Define the struct
- Declare data members
- Define variables for the newly defined type
- Set values of members
- Given a definition for a struct, which may contain other structs,
and variable definitions, state what type of object
any variable or struct member is
- Pointer variables, be able to:
- Define two variables of a given type
- Define a pointer to the same type
- Make the pointer point to the first variable
- Change the first variable's value
- Make the pointer point to the second variable
- Change the second variable's value
- Draw a diagram that depicts the activities above
