Final Exam Announcement

Posted: May 4th, Sunday

Time: 12 noon to 2:00 pm, Thursday, May 15th.

Place: W10 PappaJohn Business Administration Building (same place where the class meets).

Topics:

• Reference parameters, their purpose, how they differ from value parameters, const reference parameters (Read Section 6.4, examples in homeworks, lecture notes, and discussion section notes).
• Constructors and initializer lists (Read about the Coin class from Section 7.3, go over the implementation of the Dictionary class from your lecture notes, and the symbolTable class from Project 4).
• Vectors (Read all of Chapter 8 except Section 8.5, examples from homeworks, lecture notes, and discussion section notes).
• Recursion (Read Section 10.1, examples from homeworks, lecture notes, and discussion section notes).

More details: For each of the topics above, there will be a problem on the exam. Here is a brief description of each problem:

• On Reference Parameters: You are given a program that contains a function with parameters. You are asked to write down the output produced by the program. This requires understanding of how reference and value parameters work.
• On Constructing Classes: You are asked to add a member function to the symbolTable class. The important requirement is that you need to reuse code that you have already written for the other member functions.
• On Vectors and Sorting: You are asked to write a function to sort a Vector object satisfying certain special properties.
• On Recursion and Vectors: You are given a recursive function and asked to write down the output produced by the function.

Miscellaneous: The exam is open notes/books so do not forget to bring in material you would like to refer to during the exam. Here is the final exam from fall 1996 and here is my solution.