Final Exam on Wednesday, December 10 at 7:45-10:00am in MSB 228.

Topics to study for the final exam

Chapter 7

- communication links, the concept of signal modulation, 
  wired/wireless networks, modems, Ethernet, DSL

- LANs, bridge, switch, repeater, hub, router.
- WANs, network topology, packet switching, communication protocols
  interfaces
- network layers: physical, data link, network, transport, applications
- history of the Internet and WWW

Chapter 8

- difference between high-level languages and assembly
- describe linker, loader, compiler, assembler
- C++ program structure and main components
- C++ variable types
- C++ arrays
- C++ statement types: input/output, assignment, control statements
- C++ functions, arguments/parameters
- objects in C++
- graphics programming
- software engineering and software life cycle

Chapter 10

- the problem of translating from a high-level language vs. assembly
- the phases of translation
  -- lexical analysis: the concept of a token, and token classification
  -- parsing: BNF, grammars, ambiguous/unambiguous grammars, parse tree,
     productions, metasymbols
  -- semantic analysis/code generation
  -- code optimization
     = local optimization
       * constant evaluation
       * strength reduction
       * eliminating unnecessary operations
     = global optimization