Review Sheet for Exam 1

• Chapter 1 (all)
• Chapter 2 (all)
• Chapter 3 (except for 3.2 and 3.11)
• Chapter 4 (except for 4.4, 4.5, 4.9, and 4.10)

• The concept of object-oriented programming
• Features and advantages of object-oriented programming (why do it?)
• Procedural vs. object-oriented programming
• C++ file naming conventions
• How one approaches problem solving
• The concept of abstraction vs. implementation
• How to write a class definition given a specification written in English
• How to instantiate an object and access its members
• How to declare a pointer to an object and access the object's members
• How to code a member function
• What a constructor is used for and how to code one
• What a default constructor is and why it is typically good to include one in a class
• Passing by value vs. passing by reference (address) -- syntax and what happens in RAM
• How to declare and use reference variables
• Why one would choose to use an inline function and the syntax of an inline function
• The use of command-line arguments
• Understand the syntax of the Account, Vector, and Fraction class examples
• What function overloading is, why it is useful, and the syntax
• What operator overloading is, why it is useful, and the syntax
• The basic use of cin, cout, and I/O streams (fstream class)
• How one should handle execution errors
• What is meant by scope and the different types of scope in C++
• How to use optional function arguments and why it is useful to do so
• What a function signature is and how it is related to function overloading
• How function calls are resolved in the case of an overloaded function
• When type promotion and conversion can occur and problems associated with implicit conversion
• Why one would choose to do an explicit type cast and how to do it
• What a read-only parameter (const) is and why one would choose to use one
• How to use new and delete
• How to declare, initialize, and use arrays
• How to declare, initialize, and use pointers
• What the relationship between arrays and pointers is
• What the legal pointer operations are and how to use them
• How to pass a pointer as an argument and to return a pointer
• How to dynamically allocate an array and the advantages of doing so
• Why one would use an array of pointers and the syntax for doing so
• The concept of a linear linked list and how to implement one (Project 1) -- create and fill a node, add a node, delete a node, print the contents of a node, print the list, search the list

• abstraction, abstract data type (ADT), encapsulation, method, attribute, public, private, object, instance, instantiation, scope resolution operator, promotion, conversion, type casting, lvalue, NULL pointer