CS IB
	CONSULTATION TIME, FINAL EXAM TIME AND STUDY TOPICS

Consultation:  Monday, Dec 12, 1-4pm  MSB 356
Final exam:    Thursday, Dec 15, 10:00-12:30pm, ART 202


TOPICS (not an exhaustive list)

* structures - name and purpose of an aggregate construct
  structure variables, member variables, assigning structures
  passing structure as a parameter, complex structures, arrays
  of structures, arrays as member variables of a structure

* classes - purpose, advantages over structures, public/private
  members, inline/outside function definition, mutators/accessors,
  constructors, constructor overloading and default constructor,
  friend functions, static constants

* pointers - definition and usage, pointers and constants, array names
  and pointers, null/loose pointer, pointers to objects (arrow
  operator), pointer arithmetic, passing pointers by value and by
  reference, returning pointers

* dynamic memory allocation - static/dynamic/automatic variables,
  allocation for basic types, for arrays, for objects, allocation of
  objects with dynamic members: the big three (destructor, copy
  constructor, assignment overloading); memory leak problem for
  assignment overloading: protection against self-assignment,
  stackability

* vectors - advantages over (raw) arrays, declaring, adding/removing
  element, comparing/assigning vectors, passing by value/reference
  returning, iterators, iterator arithmetic, using interators
  to insert, erase elements, sort vector

* vectors of vectors: advantages over multidimensional raw arrays,
  defining, initializing, accessing; finding size; the concept of a
  jagged array, adding/removing a row (at the end and in the middle),
  adding/erasing an element (at the end of the row, and in the middle)

* need and uses for diagrams. Diagram types: structure and behavior
  diagrams.  Class diagram notation: classes, member functions
  (methods), instance variables (member variables), aggregation,
  reference, instantiation. Object diagrams, differences from class
  diagrams. Use case diagrams: actors, use cases. State diagrams