December
1998 QUESTION 1 (Compulsory) Total Marks: 20 Marks |
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| (a) | State, and briefly describe, the final stage
of the Booch design methodolgy.
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| (b) | In C++, a virtual function permits dynamic
binding. Explain what is meant by dynamic binding and how it differs from static
binding.
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| (c) | Explain the use of the this pointer in C++.
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| (d) | Explain the difference between deep
and shallow (or memberwise) copying of objects in C++.
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| (e) | For either Java or Smalltalk, list
two language features that are different from those found in C++.
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| (f) | (i) Explain the difference between passing
arguments to a function by value and by reference.
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| (ii) Write a function that takes an array of integers and its integer length, and reverses the order of the integers in the array. | [7] |