CS I FINAL EXAM STUDY TOPICS

Final Exam Date/Time: Thursday, December 13,  12:45-3:00pm in MSB 228
Exam week consultation: Monday, December 10, 8am-12pm, 1pm-5pm in MSB 356

TOPICS (not an exhaustive list)

* classes - advantages over structures, public/private members,
  mutators/accessors, constructors, friend functions, static constants

* pointers - definition and usage, pointers and constants, array names
  and pointers, null/loose pointer, pointers to objects

* dynamic memory allocation - static/dynamic/automatic variables,
  allocation for basic types, for arrays, for objects,
  allocation of objects with dynamic members:  the big three
  (destructor, copy constructor, assignment overloading)

* vectors - advantages over (raw) arrays, declaring, adding/removing
  element, comparing/assigning vectors, passing by value/reference
  returning, iterators

* exception handling - try/catch, exception types, default exceptions,
  catching outside functions, standard exceptions
 
* recursion - purpose, program stack, function frame, difference
  between function invocation and function definition, stopping
  case/infinite recursion, recursion vs. iteration
  
* program diagrams - purpose, structural vs. behavior diagrams,
  class diagrams (multiplicity, aggregation), object diagrams,
  use case diagrams (actors, system boundary, use case)
  interaction/sequence diagrams (processes and messages)