CS245 - Computer Science II - Test 2 Study Guide

CS245 - Computer Science II - Test 2 Study Guide

Study Material

Chapters 8, 9 (Simulation & Information Deluge) of Computers: Inside and Out including quizzes
Chapters 8-10 (Inheritance, Classes, & Algorithms) of Object Concept; and labs

Test Format (You may bring in one study sheet of paper with notes)
15 Multiple Choice (2 pts each)
5 Matching
Short Answer Questions
Short C++ Programming Problems

Specifically Study

Reasons for Simulation (time compression)
Models of Simulation (continuous vs. discrete, predictable vs. probablistic, feedback)
Design and Implementation of Simulation Systems (examples)
Fundamentals and Uses of Virtual Reality

Methods of data collection, storage, retrieval, and archival, especially by US Census, FBI, Landsat and IRS
FBI's fingerprint process
Structure of a database and units of data
DBMS and its advantages, as well as query languages
Definition of terms: statistic, probability, sampling, distribution, correlation, standard deviation

Compute probability, mean, mode and median

time compression continuous vs. discrete predictable vs. probabilistic

feedback Inheritance Base and Derived Classes

public vs. protected vs. private constructors & destructors

virtual functions & polymorphism EMPLOYEE program

streams and file operations strings and string operations

documenting programs compiling, linking and running programs

searching algorithms (sequential, binary) recursion

safe arrays sorting algorithms (selection, quick)

time compression	continuous vs. discrete	predictable vs. probabilistic
feedback	Inheritance	Base and Derived Classes
public vs. protected vs. private	constructors & destructors
virtual functions & polymorphism	EMPLOYEE program
streams and file operations	strings and string operations
documenting programs	compiling, linking and running programs
searching algorithms (sequential, binary)	recursion
safe arrays	sorting algorithms (selection, quick)