Programming Fundamentals
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Programming Fundamentals is an introductory course designed to equip students with the essential concepts and practices of computer programming. Through hands-on experience and theoretical instruction, students learn core topics such as data types, variables, control structures, functions, and basic problem-solving techniques. The course emphasizes logical thinking, algorithm development, and structured programming using a high-level programming language. By the end of the course, students gain the foundational skills necessary to design, write, test, and debug simple computer programs, forming a solid base for further studies in computer science and software development.
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C++ Programming From Problem Analysis to Program Design 8th Edition by D. S. Malik
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Chapter 1: An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages
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Q1) ____________________ signals represent information with a sequence of 0s and 1s.
Answer: Digital digital
Q2) The command that does the linking on Visual C++ Express (2013 or 2016) and Visual Studio 2015 is Make or Remake.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) When you compile your program, the compiler identifies the logic errors and suggests how to correct them.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The ____ handles the overall activity of the computer and provides services.
A) central processing unit
B) operating system
C) arithmetic logic unit
D) control unit
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Basic Elements of C++
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Q1) When a value of one data type is automatically changed to another data type, a(n) ____________________ type coercion is said to have occurred.
Answer: implicit
Q2) The memory space for a(n) ____________________ data value is 64 bytes.
Answer: long long
Q3) Choose the output of the following C++ statement: cout << "Sunny " << '\n' << "Day " << endl;
A) Sunny \nDay
B) Sunny \nDay endl
C) Sunny Day
D) Sunny \n Day
Answer: C
Q4) ____ are executable statements that inform the user what to do.
A) Variables
B) Prompt lines
C) Named constants
D) Expressions
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Inputoutput
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Q1) You can use the function getline to read a string containing blanks.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The number of input data extracted by cin and >> depends on the number of variables appearing in the cin statement.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The function ____________________ returns the next character in the input stream; it does not remove the character from the input stream.
Answer: peek
Q4) Manipulators without parameters are part of the ____ header file.
A) iostream
B) iomanip
C) ifstream
D) pmanip
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Control Structures I Selection
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Q1) In C++, && has a higher precedence than ||.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a relational operator?
A) =
B) ==
C) !
D) &&
Q3) Which of the following operators has the highest precedence?
A) !
B) *
C) %
D) =
Q4) The result of a logical expression cannot be assigned to an int variable, but it can be assigned to a bool variable.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In a switch statement, if the value of the expression does not match any of the case values, the statements following the ____________________ label execute.
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Chapter 5: Control Structures II Repetition
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Q1) In a sentinel-controlled while loop, the body of the loop continues to execute until the EOF symbol is read.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What executes immediately after a continue statement in a while and do-while loop?
A) loop-continue test
B) update statement
C) loop condition
D) the body of the loop
Q3) A(n) ____-controlled while loop uses a bool variable to control the loop.
A) counter
B) sentinel
C) flag
D) EOF
Q4) The ____ statement can be used to eliminate the use of certain (flag) variables.
A) while
B) switch
C) break
D) if
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Chapter 6: User-Defined Function
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Q1) Given the following function prototype: Int test(float, char);
Which of the following statements is valid?
A) cout << test(12, &);
B) cout << test("12.0", '&');
C) int u = test(5.0, '*');
D) cout << test('12', '&');
Q2) Which of the following function prototypes is valid?
A) int funcTest(int x, int y, float z){}
B) funcTest(int x, int y, float){};
C) int funcTest(int, int y, float z)
D) int funcTest(int, int, float);
Q3) Functions that do not have a return type are called ____ functions.
A) zero
B) null
C) void
D) empty
Q4) Stream variables (for example, ifstream and ofstream) should be passed by ____________________ to a function.
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Chapter 7: Namespaces, the Class String, and
User-Defined Simple Data Types
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Q1) The following statement creates an anonymous type: enum {1ST, 2ND, 3RD, 4TH} places;
A)True
B)False
Q2) An enumeration type can be passed as a parameter to a function only by value.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The string expression strVar.____________________ inserts all the characters of str at index pos into strVar.
Q4) Suppose str = "xyzw";. After the statement str[2] = 'Y'; The value of str is "____".
A) xyzw
B) xYzw
C) xyYw
D) xzYw
Q5) Which of the following statements creates an anonymous type?
A) enum grades {A, B, C, D, F};
B) enum grades {};
C) enum {};
D) enum {A, B, C, D, F} grades;
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Chapter 8: Arrays
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Q1) A collection of a fixed number of elements (called components) arranged in n dimensions (n >= 1) is called a(n) ____.
A) matrix
B) vector
C) n-dimensional array
D) parallel array
Q2) Assume you have the following declaration double salesData[1000];. Which of the following ranges is valid for the index of the array salesData?
A) 0 through 999
B) 0 through 1000
C) 1 through 1001
D) 1 through 1000
Q3) The form of the for loop shown below is called a(n) ____________________ for loop.
for (dataType identifier : arrayName) statements
Q4) The array index can be any integer less than the array size.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Records Structs
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Q1) Consider the following statements: struct rectangleData { Double length; Double width; Double area; Double perimeter; };
RectangleData bigRect; Which of the following statements correctly initializes the component length of bigRect?
A) bigRect = {10};
B) bigRect.length = 10; C) length[0]= 10; D) bigRect[0]= 10
Q2) To access a structure member (component), you use the struct variable name together with the member name; these names are separated by a dot (period).
A)True B)False
Q3) Memory is allocated for struct variables only when you ____________________ them.
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Chapter 10: Classes and Data Abstraction
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Q1) As parameters to a function, class objects can be passed by reference only.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A ____ sign in front of a member name on a UML diagram indicates that this member is a public member.
A) +
B) -
C) #
D) $
Q3) In C++ terminology, a class object is the same as a class instance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Consider the accompanying class definition, and the object declaration: rectangleType bigRect(14,10);
Which of the following statements is correct?
A) bigRect.setLengthWidth();
B) bigRect.setLengthWidth(3.0, 2.0);
C) bigRect.length = 2.0;
D) bigRect.length = bigRect.width;
Q5) The header file is also known as the ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Inheritance and Composition
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Q1) If inheritance is private, all members of the base class, including private members, become private members of the derived class.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If inheritance is public, all protected members of the base class are ____________________ members of the derived class.
Q3) The constructor of a derived class cannot directly access the ____________________ member variables of the base class.
Q4) In protected inheritance, public and protected members of the base class become the protected members of the derived class.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Classes can create new classes from existing classes. This important feature ____.
A) encourages code reuse
B) aids the separation of data and operations
C) provides public access to the internal state of an object
D) results in more software complexity
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Chapter 12: Pointers, Classes, Virtual Functions, and
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Q1) The dereferencing operator is also known as the indirection operator and refers to the object to which its operand points.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A memory leak is an unused memory space that cannot be allocated.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The copy constructor automatically executes when, as a parameter, an object is passed by ____________________.
Q4) Run-time binding is also known as ____ binding.
A) static
B) shallow
C) dynamic
D) deep
Q5) The code int *p; declares p to be a(n) ____ variable.
A) new
B) num
C) pointer
D) address
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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) Every object of a class maintains a (hidden) pointer to itself, and the name of this pointer is ____.
A) self
B) object
C) it
D) this
Q2) The associativity of the operator = is from right to left.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is the general syntax of the function prototype to overload the pre-increment operator as a nonmember function?
A) className operator++();
B) friend className operator++();
C) className operator++(int);
D) friend className operator++(className&);
Q4) Both parameters of the function to overload the operator << are reference parameters.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Exception Handling
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Q1) A catch block can have, at most, ____ catch block parameter(s).
A) zero
B) one
C) two
D) three
Q2) The general syntax to rethrow an exception caught by a catch block is: ____ (in this case, the same exception is rethrown).
A) rethrow;
B) throw;
C) rethrow exception;
D) throw exception;
Q3) The statements that may generate an exception are placed in a ____ block.
A) throw
B) finally
C) try
D) catch
Q4) The heading of a try block can contain ellipses in place of a parameter.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In C++, throw is a(n) ____________________ word.
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Chapter 15: Recursion
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Q1) Consider the accompanying definition of a recursive function. What is the output of the following statement? cout << puzzle(5, 10) << endl;
A) 720
B) 5040
C) 5760
D) 10800
Q2) Recursive algorithms are implemented using ____________________ functions.
Q3) To design a recursive function, you must determine the limiting conditions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Consider the accompanying definition of a recursive function. What is the output of the following statement? cout << recFunc(10) << endl;
A) 10
B) 11
C) 100
D) 110
Q5) Suppose that function A calls function B, function B calls function C, function C calls function D, and function D calls function A. Function A is then ____________________ recursive.
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Chapter 16: Searching and Sorting
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Q1) All of the values in a list have the same type.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which statement declares intList to be a vector of size 5 and the element to be of type int?
A) vector intList[5];
B) vector<int> intList(5);
C) vector<int> intList();
D) vector(int) intList[5];
Q3) The type vector provides the expression ____________________, which inserts a copy of elem into vecList at the end.
Q4) For a list of length n, the bubble sort makes exactly ____ key comparisons.
A) n(n-1)/2
B) n(n-1)/3
C) n(n-1)/4
D) (n-1)/2
Q5) The bubble sort makes fewer item assignments than comparisons.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In order to apply a(n) ____________________ search, the list must be sorted.
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Chapter 17: Linked Lists
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Q1) Because each node of a linked list has two components, we need to declare each node as a(n) ____.
A) reference and string
B) int and object
C) index and element
D) class or struct
Q2) When building a linked list in the ____ manner, a new node is always inserted at the end of the linked list.
A) backward
B) forward
C) traversal
D) random
Q3) A(n) ____________________ is an object that produces each element of a container, such as a linked list, one element at a time.
Q4) Every node in a doubly linked list has two pointers: ____ and ____.
A) top; bottom
B) back; next
C) current; forward
D) previous; forward
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Chapter 18: Stacks and Queues
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Q1) The addition and deletion of elements of a stack occurs only at the ____ of the stack.
A) head
B) bottom
C) top
D) middle
Q2) In ____________________ notation, operators are written after the operands.
Q3) The bottom element of the stack is the last element added to the stack.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ____________________ techniques are used when it is too expensive or dangerous to experiment with real systems.
Q5) The following expression (a - b) * (c + d) is equivalent to which of the following postfix expressions?
A) a b c d - + *
B) a b - c d + *
C) a b - + c d *
D) - + * a b c d
Q6) An array is a(n) ____________________ access data structure.
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