Information About The Midterm Exam
Additional details will be provided as we get closer to the exam
so you should check this page for updates.
Grades: Grades: all term grades are now posted at the
top of the course web page
Date/location of the actual midterm exam:
Friday March 4
during normal class time in the
regular lecture room.
Midterm review
- Will be held during part of the lecture on Wednesday, March 2
Exam instructions (these are from the actual exam so you should read them
beforehand)
- Duration: 50 minutes
- 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.
- DO NOT OPEN the exam until you are told you can start..
- 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.
- 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.
|
Date |
March 4
2011 |
|
Instructor |
James Tam |
|
Section |
01 |
|
Course name |
CPSC |
|
Course number |
233 |
- Use a non-erasable pen to answer the written questions. Write your answer in the space provided.
- 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).
Topics
| Topic |
Approximate percentage of the exam1 |
| Number representations |
~16% |
| Java introduction |
16 |
| Introduction to Object-Orientation |
37 |
| Lists |
23 |
| Advanced Java (up to and including the lecture on Friday February 18:
Slides 1 - 40) |
~7% |
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.
Multiple choice questions
|
21 marks
|
| |
21 questions x 1 mark each |
|
Written questions
|
22 marks
|
| |
Code writing |
6 |
| |
Code writing |
8 |
| |
Code writing |
4 |
| |
Conceptual, code writing |
4 |
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.