Information about the midterm exam

Grades: [Sorted by student ID number in ascending order]

Date/location of the actual midterm exam:

Monday November 1 during normal class time in the regular lecture room

Midterm review

It will occur during Friday lecture immediately before your exam

Exam instructions (these are from the actual exam so you should read them beforehand)

1. This is a closed book exam: No electronic devices (e.g., cell phones must be shut off and out of sight) or computational aids (e.g., any calculators, laptops, hand held computers, slide rulers, abaci) will be allowed. This includes ‘simple’ calculators.
2. DO NOT START the exam until you are told to do so.
3. For the multiple choice questions make sure that you select the best answer to each question on the computer bubble sheets using an HB pencil or darker.
4. Make sure that you fill in the bubbles on the multiple choice answer sheet for all the labelled categories. (Neglecting to full in all the information may result in your exam getting lost or not marked so it's important not to miss anything!) Here's the info for some of the categories that students typically miss.

5. For the written questions write your answer in the space provided.
6. Unless otherwise indicated you can assume that the programs and program fragments will compile.
    

Material that you should study

• The lecture material: the PowerPoint slides will provide you with an outline of the topics to be covered. However studying the information just listed on the slides won't be sufficient to do well on the final exam. You will also need to take notes in class and to study and understand those notes. If you have any questions then make sure that you ask me for help and clarification.
• The text books: they should be used as another source of material to help you understand the material as you prepare for the exam. I won't however directly examine you on material that is listed in the textbooks that I didn't cover in class.
• Lab exercises and the lab handouts: I won't be directly examining you on this material (unless it overlaps with the lecture material).
• The exam could definitely cover topics up to and including lists.

Topics that will be on the midterm exam

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Topics that won't be on the midterm exam

• Administrative notes
• Advanced Java (and the sections that follow).

Question type (on the near final version of the exam)

• 21 Multiple choice questions
• Written Q1 Miscellaneous (not code writing or code trace) type of written question from the intro to Java and intro to Object-Orientation section
• Written Q2 Code writing question
• Written Q3 Code writing question
• Written Q4 Conceptual question