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CSE 425 Studio: Control Abstraction II

The document describes exercises for a CSE 425 studio on control abstraction using exceptions, coroutines, and events in C++. It involves forming groups, completing required exercises on exception handling, and an optional enrichment exercise involving user input.

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CSE 425 Studio: Control Abstraction II

The document describes exercises for a CSE 425 studio on control abstraction using exceptions, coroutines, and events in C++. It involves forming groups, completing required exercises on exception handling, and an optional enrichment exercise involving user input.

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CSE 425 Studio: Control Abstraction II

These studio exercises are intended to extend your familiarity with ideas and techniques for program
control flow involving exception handling, co-routines, and events, again in a multi-paradigm
programming language (C++). In this studio you will again work in self-selected groups of ~3 people,
and will report the results of your work on the studio exercises on the course message board. Students
who are more familiar with the material are encouraged to partner with and help those who are less
familiar with it, and asking questions of your classmates and professor during the studio sessions is highly
encouraged as well. There are also links on the main course web page to helpful web sites for these
exercises, which you are also encouraged to use as resources. Please record your answers as you work
through the following exercises. After you have finished please post your answers to the required
exercises (and optionally to the enrichment exercise) to the course e-mail account with “Control
Abstraction Studio II” in the subject line. The enrichment exercise is a chance to dig deeper into the
material, especially if you breeze through the required ones.

PART I: REQUIRED EXERCISES

1. Form a team of ~3 people and write down your names as the answer to this exercise.

2. Create a new project in Visual Studio 2013 (for example, ControlAbstractionStudioII or


something similar that identifies which studio this is for). Modify the main function signature so that it
matches the standard portable (e.g., between Windows and Linux) main function signature (and variable
names) for a C++ program: int main (int argc, char * argv[]). Declare and define a
function that always throws an int and call that function directly from main (without a surrounding
try/catch block). Build and run your program and observe what happens. Then, surround the call to the
function with a try/catch block, again build and run your program, and observe what happens. As the
answer to this exercise, please describe what you observed in each case and why you think what you saw
happens for each variation.

3. In your main function, declare a try/catch block that has a single catch statement that catches an int
variable by value and prints out its value. Inside the try block declare an int variable but do not
initialize it. Right after the declaration, throw the int variable. See if you can build and run your code
(and if so what value is output). Then, initialize the variable, and see if you can build and run your code
(and if so what value is output). Change the type of the variable you throw (but not the type of variable
you catch) to char and see if you can build and run your code (and if so whether an exception was
caught and if so what value is output). Change the type of the variable you throw to double and see if
you can build and run your code (and if so whether an exception was caught and if so what value is
output). As the answer to this question please indicate what happened in each of those cases, and for each
of them please explain why you think that happened.
4. Declare and define (or use ones from a previous set of studio exercises) a base class (or struct) and
another class (or struct) derived from it, both of which have a const virtual method named print that
takes no parameters and prints out the name of the class to the standard output stream. In your main
function declare a try/catch block that has catch statements that catch each of the class (or struct) types by
reference and each call the caught exception’s print method. Inside the try block instantiate and throw
an instance of the derived class (or struct).

Try to build and run your program (1) with the more specific catch block ahead of the more general one,
and then (2) with the more general catch block ahead of the more specific one. As the answer to this
exercise please describe what you saw in each of those cases and what your observations say about how
catch blocks should be ordered in C++ and to what extent the language enforces that.

5. Declare and define a default constructor, copy constructor, and assignment operator in both the base
and derived types (classes or structs) from the previous exercise – the copy constructor and assignment
operator should take a reference to a const object of the base type in the base type’s version and of the
derived type in the derived type’s version. In each of those methods add a statement that prints out (to the
standard output stream) which method it is and the address of the object on which it was called.

Repeat the previous exercise and observe (1) how many times each of those methods was called on each
particular object, and (2) on how many different objects they were each called, and as the answer to this
exercise please offer an explanation for why you saw what you saw.

6. Repeat the previous exercise but catch by value instead of by reference. Again build and run your
program with the catch blocks being declared in the two different orders. As the answer to this exercise
please indicate whether (and if so how) what you saw in this exercise differed from what you saw in the
previous exercises, and explain why you saw (or did not see) any difference.

PART II: ENRICHMENT EXERCISE (Optional, feel free to skip or try variations that interest you)

7. Write an input handler function that uses the standard output stream to prompt the user to type in a
string of text, reads a (C++ style) string of text from the standard input stream, and if the string is “quit”
throws an exception but otherwise returns the string. From within a try/catch block in your main function
call the input handler repeatedly and pass each string returned from the input handler to another function
that keeps track of how many times the user has typed in each different string it sees, and prints out a
message with the string and its current count. Build and run your program with different inputs and
observe its behavior. As the answer to this exercise, show your program and its output.

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