Week 8a - Examination Review

Synopsis:

Readings and Activities for the Week:

1. Exam Notes

   I strongly recommend you create a set of hand written notes that contain the things you think are important to help you answer questions quickly and accurately. Organizing them and writting them yourself, instead of making copies, will help you remember their contents.

2. Midterm Exam

   Instructor's Solution for a prior Midterm
   

   • Topics:

     1. Project #1, Project #2, Project #3, Project #4 statements
        Even though you haven't completed Project #4, we may ask you to sketch out a design
     2. creation and use of abtract data types, template classes, inheritance, C++ object model
     3. callable objects, lambdas, threads, synchronization
     4. UML, e.g., package, activity, and class diagrams
     5. STL Containers and Iterators

   • What we won't ask you:

     1. Detailed questions about the WPF framework or C++\CLI
     2. Questions about Socket code, but you may be asked about use of sockets for communication
     3. To reproduce detailed code examples from the lectures or texts, but you will be asked to write code
     4. To reproduce detailed discussions from class notes or texts, but you will need to know the ideas

   • Study materials:

     Notes:
     Class relationships, Object relationships, Design Principles, C++ Object Model and Classes, Message-passing Communication
     
     
     Presentations:
     Abstract Data Types, Class Hierarchies, Dark Corners, Templates, Threads
     
     
     Code Examples:
     Callable Objects, C++11 Concurrency, Lambda Capture, STL Containers, Construction and destruction of Compound Objects, Exceptions