PIC 197 Practice Midterm

What to expect from the real thing:

The real midterm will be in class, closed book, closed notes and have five
problems of approximately the same difficulty as those below. Each problem
will be worth 4pts. One of the problems below is guaranteed to be on
the actual midterm.

1. Explain how to register a windows object with the operating system.

2. Explain what a window event loop is and how to set up a callback function
   in Windows.

3. Describe how 8-bit BMP files are formatted.

4. Define page-flipping and double buffering and explain how to
   flip a surface which has a backbuffer surface in DirectX.

5. Explain how to blit out an image where some color values are
   transparent.

6. Describe how to get the system time in milliseconds and how to use
   this to cycle between three bit-maps every second.

7. What is a Factory Pattern and give a possible use?

8. Write a program which inserts the numbers 1-10 inorder in an STL vector
   then removes them in reverse order.