Fall 2014: Midterm Study Guide

Chapter 1

1. What is software?
2. What are the ideals for programmers?
3. What are the four stages in the process of developing a program?

Chapter 2

1. What does a compiler do?
2. What does a linker do?
3. What is the process for creating an executable?

Chapter 3

1. What is an object?
2. What is a type?
3. What is a variable?
4. What goes into a variable declaration?
5. What is an initialization?
6. What is an assignment?
7. What does extraction (>>) do?
8. What are the 7 built-in types?
9. What are the rules for naming variables in C++?
10. What are examples of names in C++? Both good and bad.

Chapter 4

1. What is abstraction?
2. What is encapsulation?
3. What is divide and conquer?
4. What is an expression?
5. What is a statement?
6. What is a selection statement?
7. What is an iteration statement?
8. What is a block?
9. What is a function?
10. Why write functions?
11. What is a function declaration?
12. What is a function definition?

Topics from Class

1. What are the four ways to structure a program?
2. What are the two passing mechanisms?
3. When should you use pass-by-reference?
4. What is scope?
5. What is lifetime?
6. Why are global variables bad?
7. What is a global variable?
8. How does C++ view input and output?
9. How does C++ typically process an input stream?
10. What makes extraction (>>) stop?
11. How do you use a file for input or output?

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