CMPT130 Suggested Text Book Questions

Listed below are some suggested practice questions from Problem Solving with C++, 9th ed. by Walter Savitch. These questions should help you learn the material, and practice the material.

The self-test questions are reasonably straight-forward to answer, and have full answers at the end of each chapter. The practice-programs are somewhat harder, and programming-projects are often longer.

Chapter 1: Intro

• Practice Programs: 1, 2, 4, 5.
• Programming Projects: 3.

Chapter 2: Variables, Expressions, some if/while

• Practice Programs: 1, 2, 5.
• Programming Projects: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14.

Chapter 3: bool, complex if, more looping

• Practice Programs: 1, 5, 7.
• Programming Projects: 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13.

Chapter 4: Functions (part 1)

• Practice Programs: 1, 2, 6.
• Programming Projects: 2, 4, 6.

Content mainly covered after midterm

Chapter 5: Functions (part 2)

• Self Test Exercises: 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14.
• Practice Programs: 2, 3, 4, 9.
• Programming Projects: 1, 4.

Chapter 6: Files

• Self Test Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 16, 19.
• Practice Programs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• Programming Projects: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14.

Chapter 7: Arrays

• Self Test Exercises: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18.
• Practice Programs: 1, 2, 4.
• Programming Projects: 1 (file version suggested), 2, 3, 5 (skip sorting), 7, 14.

Chapter 8: String & Vectors

• Self Test Exercises: 15, 16, 19.
• Practice Programs: 3, 4, 5, 7.
• Programming Projects: 6, 11, 14, 16.

Chapter 9: Pointers & Dynamic Memory

• Self Test Exercises: 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13.
• Practice Programs: 1, 2.
• Programming Projects: 1, 2.

Chapter 10.1: Structures

• Self Test Exercises: 1, 2, 6, 8.