The Structure of the Exam

• Questions will for the most part consist of reading and writing code
• There may also be some multiple-choice and short answer questions.
• While the book is a good supplement, you are only responsible for topics and material in the lecture notes and the labs / projects. These are a great way for you to prepare yourself for the exam.

The exam is cumulative, but focuses on Lectures 5-7. Here is a detailed breakdown of the topics

Arrays

• declaring, using, passing to functions, fixed-size, and dynamically allocated
• arrays as pointers

Pointers

• declaring, using, dereferencing, passing to functions, address-of operator
• garbage (memory leaks), dangling references, aliasing
• pointer arithmetic
• NULL / nullptr

Basic memory management

• handling dynamic memory: new and delete
• expandable arrays, the check capacity function
• capacity (physical size) vs size (logical size)

Canonical form

• When and why its needed
• The required functions: copy constructor, destructor, assignment operator
• Extended canonical form: default constructor, equality operator, insertion/extraction operators
• Difference between copy constructor and assignment operator

A basic Array (i.e., vector) class

Templates

• class and function templates
• instantiation