Information About The Midterm Exam

I will be adding additional information here as we get closer to the actual exam date so you should periodically check back here for upates.

Grades [The grade points for all term components can be found at the top of the course web page]

Date/location of the actual midterm exam:

Friday February 18 during normal class time in the regular lecture room.

Midterm review

• Will be held in class (Wednesday February 16)

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

1. Duration: 50 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 START the exam until you are told you can start..
4. 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.
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!) 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. Make sure that you use a non-erasable pen for the written section. (Ignoring this requirement may make it difficult or impossible to make any changes if any marking disputes should arise).
6. Unless otherwise indicated you can assume that the programs and program fragments contain no syntax errors.
    

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.
• Tutorial exercises and handouts: I won't be directly examining you on this material (unless it overlaps with the lecture material).

Topics (midterm excludes functions/decomposition)

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.