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• The Game of Life - Cellular Automata example
•  3 X 3 Matrix class - with operator overloading and friend functions
• string class - find the number of occurances of a substring in a string object

• Day class 8:00 - 10:00 AM, EE/CS 3-210
  
• Evening class 6:30 - 8:30 PM, EE/CS 3-230

The final exam is comprehensive with emphasis placed on topics since midterm exam 2. Here are a review document  listing topics to be covered and sample questions from previous exams.  Solutions will be posted next week.

• Thursday, December 13, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, EE/CS 3-111
• Friday, December 14, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, EE/CS 3-125

• Polymorphism Example 1 - Classes One and Two
• Polymorphism Example 2 - Base class Circle and derived classes Cylinder and Sphere

• Inheritance - derived Cylinder class

• linked list of structs
• vector class - basic operations, dot product of two vectors using indices
  
• vector class - iterators, dot product using iterators
• vector class - the find() function  (discussed next week for the evening class)
  

• Pointer basics
• Dynamic memory management using the new operator

• string class examples - genome example programs

• Circle class - version 5: operator overloading
• C-style character array examples

• Day class, Monday, November 19
  
• Evening class, Tuesday, November 20
  

• Circle class - version 3: static data member, area, circumference, setCircle, & equal functions
• Circle class - version 4: const qualifier, friend functions

• Circle class - version 1: constructors, showdata() member function
• Circle class - version 2: ostream in showdata, accessor & mutator functions, separate compilation

• 2D arrays as function parameters
  
• Steady state temperature in a thin metal plate
• Matrix multiply example - cost of radios
• Struct example
  

• File merge function - ifstream and ofstream objects as parameters
  
• Initializing array values
  
• Arrays and loops: number of elements greater than the average
• Partially filled arrays: normalize a vector
  
• Parallel arrays: calculating an array of voltages
• Using arrays as arguments in a function call

• Two hours: 90 minutes for exam and 30 minutes for grading
• Sign-up for your two-hour time slot in this week's lab
• Open book, notes, lab files, course web pages
• A web browser can be connected to the course website
• You can ask a TA about a "syntax"  problem (e.g., what does this error message mean?)
  
• Material covered: chapters 1-4, and 12 of the text
• If you finish early, your exam can be graded but in silence!

• Slopes-of-Lines file I/O example

• Newton-Raphson method for finding the roots of an equation
• File I/O
  

• Functions: scope of call-by-reference parameters
• Functions: miles-per-gallon calculations using reference parameters
  
• Function overloading
• Pub walk simulation using random numbers
• Monte Carlo method for finding the area under a curve - PI example (will be done Friday for the day class)
  

• Functions: miles-per-gallon calculations
• Functions: scope of call-by-value parameters
• Global variable example

• Nested if-else statement (fishing license fee)
  
• Assigning letter grades using a multiway if-else statement
• Assigning pressure values using a multiway if - else statement
• Assigning pressure values using a switch statement
• Calculating student fees using a switch statement
• Table of square roots using a for loop
  
• The break and continue statement
• Calculating PI from a series expansion
• Program Development Methodology (pdf)
• Code (HTML)

• Evening class: Tuesday, October 2 (6:30-7:20)
• Day class: Wednesday, October 3.

• Sentinel controlled while loop (summing test scores)
• Bouncing ball while loop

• Check for odd or even integer (if statement)
• Temperature conversion using an if-else statement
• Table of square roots using a while loop

• Modulus operator and type cast examples

• Enhanced right triangle program with input data streaming and output formatting.

• Slides on computer components and preparing a program for running
  
• The link to the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers list (how fast is the most powerful computer?)
  
• The right triangle program (will be discussed on Monday for the day class)