CPSC 225, Spring 2002                           Information for the First Test
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     The first test for this course will be given in class on Friday,
February 22.  It will cover material from Chapters 1 through 7, Chapter 9,
and Section 12.1.  You should expect the test to include a mixture of
coding, reading code, definitions, and short essay questions.  Coding
can include short code segments as well as complete functions, classes,
and programs.  Here are some terms and topics you should be familiar with:

   program structure in C++
   #include
   namespaces
   the standard namespace, std
   standard header files: iostream, string, fstream, cmath, cstdlib
   cin and cout
   operators >> and << for I/O
   control structures: if, for, etc.
   types: int, double, char, bool
   variable declaration and initialization
   expressions and assignment statements
   const in variable declarations
   enumerated types with enum
   functions
   function prototypes
   declaration versus definition
   parameters
   overloading of functions
   returning a value from a function
   passing parameters by value
   passing parameters by reference
   default parameter values
   arrays
   arrays as parameters
   two-dimensional arrays
   struct
   classes
   comparison of structs and classes
   member of a class
   member variable
   member function
   static member function
   public and private
   defining member functions outside the class
   constructors
   calling constructors with and without parameters
   accessor and mutator functions
   const applied to formal parameters
   const member functions
   C-style strings
   the null character, '\0'
   the C++ string class
   the ifstream and ofstream classes
   opening and using files
   stream error-checking functions:  bad(), fail()
   ifstream functions:  get(ch), peek(), eof()
   the getline(istream,string) function
   random numbers:  rand(), RAND_MAX, srand(time(0))
   the g++ compiler