Basic Proficiency Exam Topics

The following is a short list of topics that you should review for basic proficiency exam. The exam will cover a selection of these topics. If you do not do well on the exam, that does not mean that you need to drop or will be dropped from the class. This exam is more of a personal assessment for you to determine which topics you need to brush up on for this course.

Basic programming constructs
- loops - for, while, do/while
- branches
Array operations
- sorting
- reversing the items in an array
- finding min or max item
Classes
- designing classes
- member variables and functions
- protection methods for member variables and functions
Pointers
- understanding pointers and how they are accessed and manipulated
Recursion
Functions and parameter passing techniques
File I/O