CS141: Topics for Sept 30 and Oct 2 & 4, 2013


Exam Friday!

Please look at Study Page. We will review on Wednesday.

Homework and Reading

The reading and homework for this week can be found here: Lab 6: Methods

Chp 5 Vocabulary (continued from last week)

For practice, check out the WileyPlus Chapter 5 Flash Cards!

method (function, member function, procedure)
black box
modularization
stepwise refinement (revisited)
reusability
return type, return value
(formal) parameter variable
argument (actual parameter)
parameter passing
variable scope: local, global
tracing code
stub
recursive methods

Common expressions are:

"call a method" or "call a function"
"return a value"
"pass a value as a parameter"

Topics: Chp 5 - Methods (continued from last week)

In Class Practice Activities