Sections Covered for the Midterm Exam

Chapter 1

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 What is a Computer?
• 1.3 Computer Organization
• 1.6 Machine Languages, Assembly Languages, and High-Level Langauges
• 1.9 Structured Programming

Chapter 2

• 2.2 IDE Overview
• 2.3 Project Window
• 2.4 Toolbox
• 2.6 Properties Window
• 2.7 Menu Bar and Tool Bar
• 2.8 A Simple Program: Displaying a Line of Text

Chapter 3

• 3.2 Visual Programming and Event Driven Programming
• 3.3 A Simple Program: Printing a Line of Text on the Form
• 3.4 Another Simple Program: Adding Integers
• 3.5 Memory Concepts
• 3.6 Arithmetic
• 3.7 Operator Precedence
• 3.8 Decision Making: Comparison Operators

Chapter 4

• 4.2 Algorithms
• 4.3 Pseudocode
• 4.4 Introduction to Control Structures
• 4.5 If/Then Selection Structure
• 4.6 If/Then/Else Selection Structure
• 4.7 While/Wend Repetition Structure
• 4.10 Formulating Algotithms: Case Study 1 (Counter-Controlled Repetition)
• 4.11 Formulating Algotithms with Top-down, Stepwise Refinement: Case Study 2 (Sentinel-Controlled Repetition)

Chapter 5

• 5.2 Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition
• 5.3 For/Next Repetition Structure
• 5.4 Examples using the For/Next Repetition Structure
• 5.11 Logical Operators