ECE 209 Exam 2 Review

Reference card

Master the C Reference Card.

Chapters covered

The second exam covers Chapters 1 to 13 of the textbook. The emphasis is on reading and writing short sections of C, similar to those you’ve done in the homework and the assignments.

Exam precedence

You should wish to review a copy of last Fall’s exam and try out the solution program or, at least, read the printout of running the solution program.

With the exception of the the flawed Problem 4, you should to be able to solve all the problems on last year’s exams.

Homework and assignments covered

The second exam will concentrate on the elements of C covered in homeworks assignments E1 to P9 and particularly projects P8 and P9. You should to be able to independently write solutions to these programs.

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 statement
• 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
• Files and I/O
  • Opening files for reading and writing
  • Testing for I/O operation errors