Preliminaries CS 440/540 Spring 2015 Kenneth Chiu

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This class covers C++ (and C) in depth. – A better name for it would probably be Advanced C++. For better or worse, projects and course material may not be aligned very well. You must have a good C++ reference and be very familiar with it. On exams, you may need to know things that aren’t on the slides. – If you don’t understand the question on exams, ask.