General

Linux Basics

• What is Unix?
• How do I access my ugrad account?
• What are basic Unix commands?
• How do you copy to local, zip files, and perform I/O redirect?

Tools

• What are common Emacs shortcuts?
• How do you use gdb to debug programs?
• What is valgrind and how do you use it?

Git

• What are common git commands?
• What is the workflow of using git?

The C Language

Welcome to C

• What is the process of compiling and executing?

Basics of C

• How do you print?
• What are the data type placeholders?
• What are variables and constants?
• What are common data types?
• How do you read formatted input?

Control Flow

• What are logical operators?
• How do you use if and else statements and switch gates?
• What are ways to loop?

Arrays and C Strings

• What are arrays?
• What are strings?

File I/O and Assertions

• What are standard streams?
• How do you read files?
• What are assertions?

Functions

• How do you write functions?
• What are the math functions?
• How do you add command-line arguments?

Recursion

• When do I use recursion?
• What are the downsides of recursion?

Separate Compilation

• What are header files?
• How do compile and link separately?
• What are make and Makefile?

Multi-Dimensional Arrays

• How do you declaration a multidimensional array?
• How do you use one as a function parameter?

Pointers

• What is a pointer and what are its operators?

Memory

• What are execution stacks?
• What is dynamic allocation and how do you use it?
• How do you dynamically allocate two-dimensional arrays?

Lifetime and Scope

• What is lifetime and scope?
• What are the different types of variables?

Structures

• How do you implement a structure?
• How do you use structs with functions?

Binary I/O

• How do you read and write to a binary file?

Bitwise

• What are the bitwise operators?

Pseudo Random Numbers

• How do pseudo-random integers work?
• How do you generate a random integer and floating point within a certain range?

Number Representation and Type Conversions

• How does two's complement work?
• What is type conversion?

Linked List

• What is a linked list?
• How do you implement one and its operations?

The C++ Language

Welcome to C++

• What is different about C++ and what are its features and concepts?
• How to compile?
• How to use C++ libraries?
• What are namespaces

Strings

• What are ways to initialize a string?
• How do you use strings?

STL Containers

• What are the commonly used STL containers?
• What are templates?
• What are vectors, maps, pairs, and tuples?
• What are the types of iterators?

STL Algorithms

• How to use sort, find, count, or is_permutation?

I/O Streams

• How do you deal with I/O?
• How do you deal with file I/O?
• What is a stringstream?

Intro to OO

• What are classes?
• What is the hierarchy of the stream class?

C++ References

• What are references and how do you declare them?
• What does passing by reference mean?

C++ Dynamic Allocation

• How do you use new and delete to dynamically allocate memory?

C++ Classes

• What is a class?
• When do I use protection?
• How do I make an array of objects?

Constructors and Destructors

• What are constructors and destructors?
• What is the difference between default constructors and non-default constructors?

Overloading

• What is function overloading?
• What is operator overloading and how do I define one as an instance method?
• What is a copy constructor?
• What is the friend keyword?

Initialization and Assignment

• What is the difference between == and =?

Rule of Three

• What is the rule of three?

Template Functions

• When do I use a template function?

Template Class

• How to separate a template class into .h and .inc files.

Inheritance

• What is relationship created by inheritance?
• How do you declare a derived class?
• What happens to the constructor and destructor in a derived class?

Polymorphism

• Can functions accept many derived types?
• What is dynamic binding?

Dynamic dispatch

• What is the memory layout of a simple class?
• When does objecting slicing occur?
• How does virtual work?
• How to use the override keyword?

Function Hiding and Abstract Classes

• When is a function hidden?
• What are pure virtual functions?
• What are abstract classes?

OO Design and UML

• How do I design for OO problems?
• How do I make a UML diagram?

Enumerated Types

• What is the difference between scoped and unscoped enumerators?

Exceptions

• What are exceptions?
• What does the exception class consist of?
• What are the keywords to use?
• What is unwinding?
• How do you make custom exceptions?

Writing Iterators

• How do I define a custom iterator?