C++ How to Program, 4/e: Lab Manual

C++ How to Program, 4/e

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C++ Lab Manual to Accompany C++ How to Program, 4/e

This lab manual complements C++ How to Program, 4/e, and the optional C++ Multimedia Cyber Classroom, 4/e, by providing a series of hands-on lab assignments designed to reinforce students’ understanding of lecture material. This lab manual is designed for closed laboratories, which are regularly scheduled classes supervised by an instructor. This lab manual also can be used for open laboratories, homework and for self-study.

C++ in the Lab focuses on Chapters 1–14 and 17 of C++ How to Program, 4/e. Each chapter in the lab manual is divided into Prelab Activities, Lab Exercises and Postlab Activities. Each chapter contains objectives that introduce the lab’s key topics and an assignment checklist that allows students to mark which exercises the instructor has assigned. Each page in the lab manual is perforated, so students can submit their answers (if required).

Solutions to the lab manual’s Prelab Activities, Lab Exercises and Postlab Activities are available in electronic form. Instructors can obtain these materials from their regular Prentice Hall representatives; the solutions are not available to students.

Prelab Activities

Prelab Activities are intended to be completed by students after studying each chapter in C++ How to Program, 4/e. Prelab Activities test students’ understanding of the material presented in the textbook, and prepare students for the programming exercises in the lab session. Prelab Activities include Matching Exercises, Fill-in-the-Blank Exercises, Short-Answer Questions, Programming-Output Exercises and Correct-the-Code Exercises.

Lab Exercises

These exercises teach students how to apply the material learned in C++ How to Program, 4/e, and prepare them for writing C++ programs. Each lab contains one or more lab exercises and a debugging problem. The Lab Exercises contain the following:

Lab Objectives highlight specific concepts on which the lab exercise focuses.
Problem Descriptions provide the details of the exercise and hints to help students implement the program.
Sample Outputs illustrate the desired program behavior, which further clarifies the problem descriptions and aids the students with writing programs.
Program Templates take complete C++ programs and replace key lines of code with comments describing the missing code.
Problem-Solving Tips highlight key issues that students need to consider when solving the lab exercises.
Follow-Up Questions and Activities ask students to modify solutions to lab exercises, write new programs that are similar to their lab-exercise solutions or explain the implementation choices that were made when solving lab exercises.
Debugging Problems consist of a blocks of code that contain syntax errors and/or logic errors. These alert students to the types of errors they are likely to encounter while programming.

Postlab Activities

Postlab Activities test the students’ understanding of the Prelab and Lab Exercise material, and ask students to apply the knowledge to creating programs from scratch. The section provides two types of programming activities: coding exercises and programming challenges. Coding exercises are short and serve as review after the Prelab Activities and Lab Exercises have been completed. These exercises ask students to write programs or program segments using key concepts from the textbook. Programming challenges allow students to apply the knowledge they have gained in class to substantial programming exercises. Hints, sample outputs and/or pseudocode are provided to aid students with these problems. Answers to the programming challenges are available for download.

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Lab Manual to Accompany C++ How to Program, 4/e

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