1. COP 3330 Object-oriented Programming in C++
Midterm Review & Study Guide
Spring 2019

2. Midterm Exam Time: Thursday 2/28, 11am-12:15pm
Plan your time well
Venue: HWC 3100, in-class exam
Close-everything exam
No calculators or other electronic devices
Bring your FSUID!
Don’t do plagiarism!

3. Midterm Exam 15% of your final score Format Multi-choice questions
True-false questions
Simple answer questions
Writing function signatures/declarations, definitions, usage
Writing simple classes
Implementating basic logic or algorithms
(Maybe) bonus questions

4. Midterm Exam Coverage How to prepare?
From “Introduction” to “Arrays and Classes, Vectors”
Materials in both the slides and the demo code
How to prepare?
Review the materials (notes/code) carefully and make sure you understand them
Reexamine the homework and make sure you can work out the solutions independently by hand
Discuss with your peer students
Discuss with the TA and me
Relax 

5. Object-oriented Programming
What and why?
Three key principles in OO programming
Objects and Classes
Definitions
Declaration and definition of a class
Syntax of declaring, defining, and using member data/variables, and member functions
Composition, arrays/vectors, ……
Const
Protection/access levels
Public, protected, private
Interface of a class
Accessors (getters) and mutators (setters)

6. Constructors & Destructors
What is a constructor?
Declaration, definition, and calls of a constructor
Default constructors
Parameterized constructors
Conversion constructors
Explicit vs. implicit conversions
Initialization list
Destructors

7. Friend Functions What and Why? How to declare, define, and use them?
Differences between friend functions and member functions (syntax and semantics)

8. Operator Overloading What and Why?
How to overload operators? As a member function? As a friend function?
Declaration, definition, and usage
Arithmetic operators
Comparison operators
Extraction & insertion operators
Prefix & postfix operators

9. Break a Leg!