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 7-9. Here is a detailed breakdown of the topics

Classes

• constructors
  • member initialization lists
• data members
• member functions
  • member functions with constant receivers
  • inline functions (both within the class declaration, and outside of it, using the inline keyword)
• non-member friend functions
• placing function bodies (definitions) in the .cpp file
• the scope resolution operator (::)

Operator Overloading

• member and non-member
• arithmetic (including increment/decrement), compound assignment, relational, and insertion/extraction operators
• which operators are best defined as members, and which as non-members
• maintaining semantic consistency of simple and compound operators (e.g., + and +=)

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
• the difference between copy constructor and assignment operator

Miscellaneous

• default parameters
• basic exception handling — along the lines of what we did in class (in the Pair class), and what you used for Lab 06
• at this point, you should have a stronger understanding of separate compilation, in particular the roles of header (.h) and implementation/source (.cpp); and the use of #include and include guards