CSC 357 Midterm Review

CSC 357 Midterm Review

The test will be given during both lecture and lab, on Friday 11 May. It will be open book and open note, but NOT open laptop during the lecture portion. It will cover the following material:

Lecture Notes Coverage: Weeks 1 through 5

Labs Coverage: 1 through 4

Programming Assignment Coverage: 1 through 3

K&R Coverage: All Chapters, specifically:

Chapter 1, all sections
Chapter 2, excluding Section 2.9
Chapter 3, excluding Sections 3.6 - 3.8
Chapter 4, excluding Sections 4.7
Chapter 5, excluding Section 5.7
Chapter 6, excluding Section 6.9
Chapter 7, excluding Sections 7.3, 7.4
Chapter 8, excluding Sections 8.5, 8.6
Appendix A, no specific questions from here, but understand it
Appendix B, excluding Sections B6 - B9, B11

Stevens Coverage: Chapters 1 - 5; specifically:

Chapter 1: all sections, but it's general material
Chapter 2: excluding Sections 2.3 - 2.9
Chapter 3: excluding Sections 3.12 - 3.16
Chapter 4: excluding Sections 4.8 - 4.11, 4.20, 4.23
Chapter 5: excluding Sections 5.12 - 5.14

Particular Emphases:

C arrays, structs, and pointers.
Writing C functions.
Use of function pointers.
System calls you used in the programs and labs.

Specifically not Covered:

Details of gcc, beyond basic commands you've used in the assignments
Details of make, beyond what is implemented in Program 3
Details of Doxygen, beyond what you did in Lab 4
Details of shell programming, beyond basic shell commands

In general, there will be no questions on material from the books or man pages that was not covered in the Lecture Notes.