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Exam format |
- The exam is cumulative but with a focus
on the material after the midterm.
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- Most of the marks will be allocated to
written questions although there will be some multiple choice
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- Topics which can be included in the
multiple choice questions or written questions worth fewer marks
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- Material covered before the midterm
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- File input and output
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- Advanced composite types (more advanced uses of lists and introduction
to classes)
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- The history of computers (Part III). Slides 1 - 28 (excluding the
history of Apple computers: slides 17 - 22)
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- Topics which can be included in the written questions worth a larger
portion of marks
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- Looping / repetition
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- Modular design / decomposition
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- Lists
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- Types of written questions that you could see on the exam
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- Writing programs: typically such a
question will have a partially implemented solution and you will be
required to write a single function or procedure. Or you may have to
write a small but complete program.
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- Tracing programs: given a program or
fragment of a program you could be asked to indicate what the output of
the program will be.
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- Conceptual questions: could involve
describing a concept or defining a term. It could be combined with one of
the above types of questions too e.g., when reading from a file why is it
important to check for the end, given a in input file with 10 lines of
information write a program that will read past the last line.
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