CS3250 (Ada) Review for Exam #1

Test Format

1. Matching - 10 qs @ 2 pts ea. This section will contain terms we went over in class but that I don't expect you to be able to pull from memory.
2. Fill-In-The-Blank - 10 qs @ 3 pts ea. These will be sentences with a word missing and you are expected to supply it. These are terms we mentioned numerous times in class that I expect you to be able to pull from memory.
3. Short Answer - 4 qs @ 5 pts ea. These are questions that will test your knowledge of concepts we went over in class. You will be expected to explain something in one sentence (be brief).
4. Long Answer - 3 q @ 10 pts eas. These are multi-part questions that will test your knowledge of several related concepts.
5. Bonus Question - 1 q @ 2 pts. This will test your knowledge of computer-related trivia beyond the scope of this class.

Things You Should Study

• The Ages of Programming Languages
• Virtues of Object-Oriented Programming
• All about Namespaces: scope, masking, global, etc.
• Ada data types
• Top-Down Approach
• Comments on Commenting, how to comment in Ada
• Enumeration with TYPE
• Constraining ranges with SUBTYPE
• CONSTANT and what it does
• PACKAGEs and how they, encapsulate, make a namespace, etc
• Set operator: IN, how to use it
• 3 Types of Programming Statements
• Approaches to Block Syntax, how blocks are done in Ada
• The IF Statement
• PROCEDUREs, including Access Specifiers in Procedure Lists
• The FUNCTION Statement including Overloading
• The PACKAGE Statement
• All about Looping: different types of constructs, asserts, invariants
• Approaches to Error Handling
• Exception Handling
• Some other Ada syntax