Information About The Final Exam

Additional details will be provided as we get closer to the exam so you should check this page for updates.

• Grades: All term grade points can be now found at the top of the course web page

Date/location of the exam:

• You can check your exam schedule online using [PeopleSoft]

Exam review

• Will be held during first week of exams. If you can't make the review session, hard copies of the sample question can be picked up on the table outside my office (you'll need to get the solutions/explanations from someone in class though)
• Date/time: Thursday April 21 3 PM
• Location: MS176

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

1. Duration: 120 minutes
2. 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. ‘Simple’ calculators are obviously excluded as well.
3. DO NOT OPEN the exam until you are told you can start.
4. Use a pencil to answer the multiple choice questions. Make sure that you select the best answer to each question on the computer bubble sheets.
5. Make sure that you fill in the bubbles on the multiple choice answer sheet for all the labeled 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!)

6. Use a non-erasable pen to answer the written questions. Write your answer in the space provided.

7. 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).

Question type (on the near final version of the exam)¹

• The exam will be a combination of written and multiple choice questions.
• The written questions could require you to: (1) write program code (2) trace program code (3) describe a concept (this type of question won't require you to write a full essay, likely it will just require a few bullet points or a few sentences/a paragraph.

1 Small changes may be made in the final version but this outline should at least give you a rough idea of the breakdowns and structure.

Topics

The exam will be cumulative but focus on the material that was covered after the last midterm (or covered before the midterm but you weren't tested on yet). This means that topics that you were tested on during the midterm may show up again during the final but will constitute a smaller portion of the exam (it may be a smaller weight written question or some questions in the multiple choice section). Alternatively the earlier material could indirectly show up as part of a question that focuses on the latter material (e.g., you could see branching and loops in questions dealing with GUIS, inheritance etc.) You won't be tested again on the low-level 'C' topics.

1 Small changes may be made in the final version but this outline should at least give you a rough idea of the breakdowns and structure.

The topics that weren't covered in lecture won't be on your final exam: exceptions, file input and output, packages, HCI and concurrent programming.