Test 1 is scheduled for Tuesday, September 29, 1998. The test will have 40 multiple choice questions.

• Study the materials from the course notes as well as from the text (Chapters 1 to 6).
• The textbook has a section titled "Exam Preparation Exercises" at the end of each chapter; prepare yourself by studying those questions. You are expected to answer questions of similar level of difficulty in the test.
• The test will have some small C++ code segments that you need to understand and analyze before answering some multiple choice questions based on them. Therefore, it is important to know about C++ statements, keywords, and directives as introduced and discussed in the class.
• Analyze, type, and run the example programs posted on the class web page to build your confidence on the materials.

The following is a list of topics, keywords, terms etc. that you may use as a guide to prepare yourself for the test. However, the list is not comprehensive. Depending on your background, you may also need to study materials outside the list as well.

Problem-solving phase, maintenance phase, algorithms, pseudocode, program translation, top-down design, structure chart, pseudocode design, software development method, program documentation.

Programming errors, program development process, syntax and semantics, identifiers, directives, data types, constants, variables, assignment operator, increment/decrement operator, arithmetic expressions, input/output streams, standard functions, formatting output, manipulators.

Relational operators, Boolean operators, Boolean expressions, truth tables, short circuit evaluation, precedence of operators, if/else statements, nested if statements, switch statement.

Loops, while statement, phases of loop execution, loop test, loop termination condition, count-controlled loops, loop control variables for count-controlled loops, event-controlled loops, sentinel-controlled loops, end-of-file-controlled loops, flag-controlled loops, counting, summing, designing loops, designing the flow of control, designing the body of the loop, nested loops, While, For, Do-While loops, Break and Continue statements.