CISC105, Exam E01 Study Guide
Fall 2005 (Sections 022-025, Conrad)

What is covered

• Lecture Notes, 8/31 through 10/7
• Labs 0-3, Project 1
• Hanly and Koffman, Chapters 1-5, excluding:
  • Chapter 4: switch
  • Chapter 5: do while
    
• Andersen, Chapters 6, 7, 8

Partial List of C Topics from Hanly Koffman Reading (not necessarily complete)

• Chapter 1: (TBA)
• Chapter 2: Overview of C
  • C Language Elements.
  • Variable Declarations and Data Types.
  • General Form of a C Program. Arithmetic Expressions.
• Chapter 3. Top-Down Design with Functions.
  • Library Functions (e.g. sqrt)
  • Functions without Arguments.
  • Functions with Input Arguments.
• Chapter 4. Selection Structures:
  • If and Switch Statements.
  • Control Structures. Conditions.
  • The if Statement. If Statements with Compound Statements (i.e. when to use{ } and when not)
  • Nested if Statements, and if/else if/else
  • Excluded for E01: switch (will be on E02)
• Chapter 5. Repetition and Loop Statements.
  • Repetition in Programs.
  • while loops
  • Computing a Sum or Product in a Loop.
  • for loops
  • nested Loops.
  • Excluded for E01: do-while Statement, endfile loops (p. 242-243; will be on E02)

More topics:

fgets vs. scanf

fprintf vs. printf

boolean expressions, boolean operators

functions: calls, prototypes, definitions, return values

div and mod, operator precedence

nested if's

Number conversions: bin, hex, octal, decimal

Stages of Compiling: preprocessor, parsing, code generation, linking

Partial List of Unix Topics (Not Necessarily Complete)

• Unix Commands: cp, rm, mkdir, pwd, cd, mv, ls, ls -l, chmod, cat, more, make
• Compiling: CC, g++, use of the -o and -c switches
• What the public_html directory is used for and how it corresponds to addresses (URLs) of web pages

Review lab00, lab01, lab02, lab03, and project 1 too!