One Minute Evaluations for 18-20 February

CS 509 - Advanced Programming II

• Topic: Details about STL functions.

  Didn't get: I have difficulty with call operator ().

  One minute response: The declaration syntax is admittedly odd, but consistent with other operator declaration syntax. Using the call operator is natural and looks just like a function call.

• Topic: Use of generic algorithm; function object; function adaptors; remove loops and use generic algorithms.

  Didn't get: Use of function adaptors and calling in program.

  One minute response: Don't worry about function adaptors; when you need them, you'll understand what they're for.

• Topic: Function pointers.

  Didn't get: Passing function parameter.

  One minute response: The difficulty is in the choice: you can pass function pointers or function objects. Use template parameters to eliminate the choice and allow for both.

• Topic: Function objects, function pointers.

  Didn't get: Function pointers are more confusing because of the way they are defined.

  One minute response: Whenever you declare a function, you've defined a constant function pointer having the name of the function.

• Topic: Input iterators, IO stream iterators, Back inserter, front interserter, etc, templates, template functions, polymorphism, functors, function objects, function adaptors.

• Topic: Iterator adaptors, template functions, functors.

  Didn't get: Istream iterator adaptors.

  One minute response: An istream adaptor creates iterators that read from an input stream using stream extraction.

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