ECE 209 Exam 2 Review

Reference card

Master the C Reference Card.

Chapters covered

The second exam covers Chapters 1 to 12 of the textbook. The emphasis is on reading and writing short sections of C, similar to those you've done in the CodeLab homework and the assignments.

Homework and assignments covered

The first exam will concentrate on the elements of C covered in the CodeLab homeworks and in Assignments 1 to 4.

The C we've seen

By the time of the first exam, we'd covered most of the C language. Consequently, you should take a look at the C topics mentioned in the Exam 1 review.

• Functions
  • Parameters and arguments
  • Return values
  • Prototype
  • return return
• Pointers
  • Declaration
  • * and & operators
  • Use of const in pointer declarations
• Arrays
  • Declaration
  • Array member access
  • Legal array index values
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Passing arrays as pointers
  • *(A+i) and A[i]
• Strings
  • Strings as character arrays
  • Initialization of multi-dimensional string arrays
  • String "constants"
  • Useful string operators
  • Command line arguments
• Variable classes
  • scope
  • duration
  • linkage
• Dynamic memory allocation
  • void * as the generic pointer
  • malloc
  • calloc
  • free
• Robust I/O
  • Validating input
  • Testing return values for end-of-file