Exam 2 will cover the material presented in lecture since Exam 1, any on-line lecture notes, and the following portions of your text:

Be prepared to write much more code than on Exam 1!

Use the topics below as a GUIDE in studying for the exam.

What a destructor is used for, its syntax, and how to write one
What a copy constructor is, its syntax, and how to write one
How to overload the stream output operator (<<)
How to overload the assignment operator (=)
The "this" pointer, what it is, when it is available, and why it is needed
How to use stream I/O
Friend functions
How to use initializer lists for constructors
Concepts of template functions and template classes, their syntax, and how to write them
How to follow the execution of a recursive function
How to write a recursive function
What the following types of recursion are: direct, indirect, mutual, tail, linear, tree
The concept of inheritance
What public inheritance is
The difference between the public, protected, and private class member access specifiers
Syntax for a derived class and its member functions and how to write them
Constructor and destructor invocation when used with a derived class

Terminology:

base case, base class (superclass), derived class (subclass), abstract class, "is a" relationship