One Minute Evaluations for 4-6 February

CS 509 - Advanced Programming II

1. Topic: We talked about exceptions.

   Didn't get: I wish you would give us source programming examples. Is assert a mechanism for exceptions?.

   One minute response: Example will show up in the next lecture. Assertions are usualy programmed to abort, but it depends on the implementation. In Java failed assertions throw an exception.

2. Didn't get: The handwriting is difficult to understand. Assignment instruction is too brief.

   One minute response: 'Tis true, my handwriting is bad; that's why I' moving to slides. As for the assignment, ask questions.

3. Topic: Briefly understand about the vector. I got the idea about the stack.

   Didn't get: [?] diff is assign.

4. Topic: We learned about vector STL vectors and their use; exception mechanism for control transfer.

   Didn't get: Exceptions are most difficult.

   One minute response: They are, than that's a problem with them.

5. Topic: Vectors and exceptions.

   Didn't get: It was easy and clear.

6. Topic: Vectors and exceptions.

   Didn't get: The copy constructor for vectors; the difference-type for vectors; exceptions.

   One minute response: The copy constructor creates a new vector that is a copy of the old vector; it's just like any other class's copy constructor. Subtracting one iterator from another tells you how many elements are in the range defined by the two iterators; the type of the count is difference_type.

7. Topic: Container; exceptions.

   Didn't get: It's easy to understand the course this week because of the good examples.

   One minute response: Thanks.

8. Topic: STL vector and exceeptions.

   Didn't get: It was understandable.

9. Topic: We talked about STL introduction and containers - vectors.

   Didn't get: Exceptions took more time to understand.

   One minute response: Yup, them's exceptions; it's even worse trying to understand somebody else's exception code.

10. Topic: STL vectors, exceptions.

11. Topic: STL vectors, exceptions.

    Didn't get: How not to throw exceptions; not to exit a program and still return an error.

    One minute response: As their name suggests, exceptions should be used only in exceptional circumstances (unfortunately, now you have to figure out what an exceptional circumstance is).

12. Topic: STL vectors and exceptions.

    Didn't get: It seems ok to understand but not sure when actually implementing it.

    One minute response: And that's why implementing it is the best way to understand it.

13. Topic: We talked about: STL, vector, exceptions.

    Didn't get: Most difficult was exceptions and how they work.

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