Reading assignment - chapter 6

Read chapter 6, User-Defined Functions I.

Due Date
Monday, October 31st, 6:00pm

Whitespace... it's free!

I was reviewing today's batch of source code submissions and I noticed that an awful lot of people were not making good use of their whitespace. Please observe the following rules in your code:

Exam #1 programming problems

I strongly suggest that each student develop a C++ solution to the following problems in preparation for the coding portion of the first exam. While I do not promise that the practical part of the exam will be *exactly* the same as any one of these problems, the actual test question will at least be very similar to one or more of these practice problems.

Exam #1 pretest results

I reviewed Monday's pretest answers today. Looking at only the first page, the seven multiple choice questions, the class average was 51.6%. Three students tied for the highest score of 71.4%. All other scores were below 60%

Grade distribution follows:

Exam #1 pretest comments - part the second

These are the solutions to the last two programming problems at the end of Monday night's pretest.

Instead of responding to each student individually, I am providing the source code solutions. Please be sure to review and understand all of these solutions.

Exam #1 pretest comments - part the first

Quite a few students seemed to have difficulty with the questions requiring code to be written, whether on paper or in the computer. Instead of responding to each student individually, I am providing the source code solutions to the last four problems on the pretest. Questions 8 and 9 are solved here and questions 10 and 11 are in the next post.

Please be sure to review and understand all of these solutions.

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.