Got our tests from last class back. 88. Not bad, and it was a fair test. There are a few questions I didn’t like, but I missed them honestly. One stupid math error, one definition I didn’t know. Half the points lost were true/false questions, which I hate and have griped about before, but at least these ones weren’t stupid trick questions. Some of the answers are things I’m inclined to argue, but they aren’t unambiguously wrong. And the grade is high enough not to justify arguing.
Several of the questions I missed related to “object code”, a term I was not familiar with and not appearing in the book. Object code is apparently post-compiler code, or machine code. Not sure what distinguishes it from executable code, if anything. May just be another term for a binary program. Having a good definition for that would have gotten me another five points or so.
Talking about list boxes and combo boxes today.
There are a few methods for adding new items to combo/list boxes at runtime. I knew they had to exist, but I didn’t know what they were before now. This is useful.
Index numbers for items in a list box are automatically in numerical order. If you sort them, their indexes change. That’s tricksy.
Some extra discussion of assignment 2, also. Need to get cracking on that soon.