Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Exam #1 preparation

Your first exam, on chapters 1 through 5 of the textbook, is scheduled on Monday. Keep an eye on the blog this week for test preparation suggestions. Programming problems on exams are often very similar to the end of chapter exercises.

Topics covered are likely to include:
  • variable declarations and assignments
  • primitive data types
  • standard input and output (cin and cout)
  • boolean operations
  • conditionals
  • if-else decisions (including nested ifs)
  • switch statements
  • for, while, and do-while loops (including nested loops)
  • file i/o