Applied Programming in C++
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Applied Programming in C++ introduces students to the fundamental concepts and practical applications of programming using the C++ language. The course covers essential topics such as data types, control structures, functions, object-oriented programming, and standard libraries. Through hands-on projects and coding exercises, students develop problem-solving skills and gain experience in creating efficient and maintainable software. By the end of the course, participants will be able to design, implement, and debug C++ programs to solve real-world computational problems.
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Chapter 1: An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages
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Q1) Main memory is an ordered sequence of items, called ____.
A) pixels
B) registers
C) memory cells
D) addresses
Answer: C
Q2) A step-by-step problem-solving process in which a solution is arrived at in a finite amount of time is called a(n) ____.
A) algorithm
B) linker
C) analysis
D) design
Answer: A
Q3) The ____________________ handles the overall activity of the computer and provides services such as memory management, input/output activities, and storage management.
Answer: operating system
OS
Q4) The ASCII data set consists of ____________________ characters. Answer: 128
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Chapter 2: Basic Elements of C++
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Q1) ____________________ is the process of planning and creating a program. Answer: Programming programming
Q2) An operator that has only one operand is called a unique operator.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The escape sequence \r moves the insertion point to the beginning of the next line.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) A comma is also called a statement terminator.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) The maximum number of significant digits in values of the double type is 15.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Inputoutput
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Q1) Manipulators without parameters are part of the ____ header file.
A) iostream
B) iomanip
C) ifstream
D) pmanip
Answer: A
Q2) Suppose that ch1, ch2, and ch3 are variables of the type char. The input is: A B C
Choose the value of ch3 after the following statement executes:
Cin >> ch1 >> ch2 >> ch3;
A) 'A'
B) 'B'
C) 'C'
D) '\n'
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Control Structures I Selection
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Q1) Suppose x is 5 and y is 7. Choose the value of the following expression: (x != 7) && (x <= y)
A) false
B) true
C) 0
D) null
Q2) Putting ____________________ in front of a logical expression reverses the value of that logical expression.
Q3) Which of the following will cause a logical error if you are attempting to compare x to 5?
A) if (x == 5)
B) if (x = 5)
C) if (x <= 5)
D) if (x >= 5)
Q4) Which of the following is the "not equal to" relational operator?
A) !
B) |
C) !=
D) &
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Chapter 5: Control Structures II Repetition
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Q1) In the case of the sentinel-controlled while loop, the first item is read before the while loop is entered.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements generates a random number between 0 and 50?
A) srand(time(0));
Num = rand() % 50; B) srand(time(10));
Num = rand()/50;
C) srand(time(0));
Num = rand()50; D) srand(time(10));
Num = rand() % 50;
Q3) The statement in the body of a while loop acts as a decision maker.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The number of iterations of a counter-controlled loop is known in advance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The function eof is a member of the data type ____________________.
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Chapter 6: User-Defined Function
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Q1) The execution of a return statement in a user-defined function terminates the program.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Given the following function prototype: Double tryMe(double, double);
Which of the following statements is valid? Assume that all variables are properly declared.
A) cin >> tryMe(x);
B) cout << tryMe(2.0, 3.0);
C) cout << tryMe(tryMe(double, double), double);
D) cout << tryMe(tryMe(float, float), float);
Q3) Which statement below about prototypes and headers is true?
A) Parameter names must be listed in the prototype, but not necessarily in the header.
B) Prototypes end with a semicolon, but headers do not.
C) Headers should come before prototypes.
D) Headers end with a semicolon, but prototypes do not.
Q4) A function ____________________ is a function that is not fully coded.
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Chapter 7: Namespaces, the Class String, and
User-Defined Simple Data Types
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Q1) Suppose str = "xyzw";. After the statement str[2] = 'Y'; The value of str is "____".
A) xyzw
B) xYzw
C) xyYw
D) xzYw
Q2) The ____ function is used to interchange the contents of two string variables.
A) iterator
B) traverse
C) swap
D) change
Q3) Consider the declaration: Enum sports {BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL, HOCKEY, BASEBALL, SOCCER};
Which of the following statements is true?
A) SOCCER--=BASEBALL
B) BASEBALL++ = BOCCER
C) HOCKEY + FOOTBALL < SOCCER
D) FOOTBALL <= SOCCER
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Chapter 8: Arrays
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Q1) Which of the following correctly declares name to be a character array and stores "William" in it?
A) char name[6] = "William";
B) char name[7] = "William";
C) char name[8] = "William";
D) char name[8] = 'William';
Q2) If an array index goes out of bounds, the program always terminates in an error.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Consider the following declaration: char str[15];. Which of the following statements stores "Blue Sky" into str?
A) str = "Blue Sky";
B) str[15] = "Blue Sky";
C) strcpy(str, "Blue Sky");
D) strcpy("Blue Sky");
Q4) In C++, the null character is represented as ____.
A) '\0'
B) "\0"
C) '0'
D) "0"
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Chapter 9: Records Structs
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Q1) To compare struct variables, you compare them ____.
A) by reference
B) by value
C) index-wise
D) member-wise
Q2) In structs, you access a component by using the struct name together with the relative position of the component.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is an allowable aggregate operation on a struct?
A) Arithmetic
B) Assignment
C) Input/output
D) Comparison
Q4) An array name and index are separated using ____.
A) curly brackets
B) square brackets
C) a dot
D) a comma
Q5) A struct is a(n) ____________________, not a declaration.
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Chapter 10: Classes and Data Abstraction
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Q1) Consider the accompanying class definition. Which of the following variable declarations is correct?
A) rectangle rectangleType;
B) class rectangleType rectangle;
C) rectangleType rectangle; D) rectangle rectangleType.area;
Q2) In C++, you can pass a variable by reference and still prevent the function from changing its value by using the keyword ____ in the formal parameter declaration.
A) automatic
B) private
C) static
D) const
Q3) With ____________________ functions, the definitions of the member functions are placed in the implementations file.
Q4) A destructor has the character ____, followed by the name of the class. A) .
B) :: C) # D)
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Chapter 11: Inheritance and Composition
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Q1) Which of the following is true about a derived class?
A) A derived class can directly access any member variable of the base class.
B) A derived class can redefine any public member function of the base class.
C) A derived class can have at most one base class.
D) A derived class can redefine any member function of the base class.
Q2) The ____ members of an object form its internal state.
A) private
B) protected
C) public
D) static
Q3) A derived class can directly access the protected members of the base class.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A call to the base class's constructor is specified in the heading of the definition of a derived class constructor.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In ____________________ (aggregation), one or more members of a class are objects of another class type.
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Chapter 12: Pointers, Classes, Virtual Functions, and
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Q1) If p is a pointer variable, the statement p = p + 1; is valid in C++.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A memory leak is an unused memory space that cannot be allocated.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An array created during the execution of a program is called a(n) ____ array.
A) list
B) static
C) execution
D) dynamic
Q4) The copy constructor automatically executes when, as a parameter, an object is passed by ____________________.
Q5) The ____ operator can be used to return the address of a private data member of a class.
A) dereferencing
B) destructor
C) address of
D) member access
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Q6) The binding of virtual functions occurs at program ____________________ time.
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Chapter 13: Overloading and Templates
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Q1) The only built-in operations on classes are assignment (=) and ____________________.
Q2) When the post-increment operator is overloaded as a nonmember function of the class, the operator function has ____ parameter(s).
A) no
B) one
C) two
D) three
Q3) The associativity of the operator = is from right to left.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The return type of the function to overload the operator >> must be a reference to a(n) ____ object.
A) iostream
B) ostream
C) stream
D) istream
Q5) The ____________________ operator causes a member-wise copy of the member variables of the class.
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Chapter 14: Exception Handling
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Q1) If you want to include members in your exception class, you typically include the function ____.
A) that
B) this
C) log
D) what
Q2) When division by zero occurs and the problem is not addressed, the program crashes with an error message that is ____ dependent.
A) code
B) computer
C) platform
D) IDE
Q3) The heading of a try block can contain ellipses in place of a parameter.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An exception is an occurrence of an undesirable situation that can be detected during program compilation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Recursion
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Q1) The ____________________ Fibonacci number in a sequence is the sum of the second and third Fibonacci numbers.
Q2) If every recursive call results in another recursive call, then the recursive function (algorithm) is said to have ____ recursion.
A) unlimited
B) indefinite
C) infinite
D) tail
Q3) Consider the accompanying definition of a recursive function. What is the output of the following statement? cout << puzzle(3, 7) << endl;
A) 10
B) 21
C) 42
D) 420
Q4) In a recursive function, the base case stops the recursion.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Recursive algorithms are implemented using ____________________ functions.
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Chapter 16: Searching and Sorting
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Q1) In the bubble sort algorithm, which code accomplishes swapping values in elements at positions index and index + 1?
A) list[index] = list[index + 1]
List[index + 1] = list[index]
B) list[index + 1] = list[index]
List[index] = list[index + 1]
C) list[index] = temp;
List[index] = list[index + 1];
Temp = list[index + 1];
D) temp = list[index];
List[index] = list[index + 1];
List[index + 1] = temp;
Q2) The sequential search algorithm does not assume that the list is sorted. A)True B)False
Q3) The type vector provides the function ____________________, which returns the first element in the vector object.
Q4) If you initially declare a vector object and do not specify its size, then in order to add elements to the vector object, we use the function ____________________.
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Chapter 17: Linked Lists
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Q1) You can use the pointer head of a linked list to traverse the list.
A)True
B)False
Q2) For classes that include pointer data members, the assignment operator must be explicitly ____________________.
Q3) We deallocate the memory for a linked list by calling the operator clear.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Data can be organized and processed sequentially using an array, called a(n) ____ list.
A) linked
B) ordered
C) sequential
D) ascending
Q5) Which of the following statements appears in the insert function of a doubly linked list?
A) current++;
B) trailCurrent++;
C) newNode++;
D) count++;
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Chapter 18: Stacks and Queues
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Q1) In ____________________ notation, operators are written after the operands.
Q2) A queue is a First In First Out data structure. A)True
B)False
Q3) A technique in which one system models the behavior of another system is called
A) imitation
B) recursion
C) simulation
D) stimulation
Q4) If you try to add a new item to a full stack, the resulting condition is called a(n) ____.
A) override
B) overflow
C) overload
D) underflow
Q5) When describing a queuing system, we use the term ____________________ to refer to the time it takes to serve a customer.
Q6) The elements at the ____________________ of the stack have been in the stack the longest.
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