Chapters covered: 1 - 14

Format: Multiple choice, true-false, matching. Bring a #2 pencil to use with the opscan.

There will be 65 questions.

Most important topics:

1. definitions set apart between two blue lines

2. basic components of a computer and tasks each carries out;

3. 3 basic structures of programming languages; source vs. object code; low-level

vs. high-level languages; compilers

4. simple data types (int, float, char) and how they are represented, i.e., stored, in the

computer; arithmetic errors due to limits of representation; typedef; ennumeration

types

5. arithmetic expressions, precedence among operations, type coercion and type

casting

6. file stream output including formatted output using the manipulators setw and

setprecision; insertion operator <<

7. file stream input including use of input stream functions: get, open, close, eof,

put, peek, putback; extraction operator >>

8. Boolean expressions, relational and logical operators -- including precedence,

short-circuit evaluation

9. blocks, nested if statements, switch statement, loop constructs (while, do-while,

for;), designing while loops, types of loops (count-controlled, sentinel-controlled,

eof-controlled, flag-controlled, event-controlled), break and continue statements

10. C++ standard functions; void functions, value-returning functions, value vs.

reference parameters, formal vs. actual parameters, function invocation and

execution, prototype, local vs. global variables, scope of identifiers, side effect

11. arrays (1 and 2 dimensional): declaring, initialization, accessing elements,

processing all elements, passing single elements and whole arrays as parameters

12. strings: declaration, initialization, manipulation using library routines (len, cmp,

cpy, cat)

13. structures: declaration, initialization, accessing members, arrays of structures,

parameter passing

• read C++ code and determine what task the code is doing,

• trace the execution of a segment of code or function and answer questions about

the values of variables at various points in the code during execution or show output produced