CPSC 231: Final exam Information

Date/location:

• The final exam is scheduled by the Office of the Registrar so you should check online for date/location [PeopleSoft]

Review material:

• Extra review type questions: [Questions] [Solutions]

Front cover from the actual exam (so make sure you look at this beforehand...important!):

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 book: 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).

Exam questions¹

^{1 Based on a near-final version of the final exam (exact proportions may vary *slightly*)}

Exam topics

The final will be cumulative but with an emphasis on topics covered subsequent to the midterm: functions (it was barely covered on the midterm), composites, files/exceptions, classes, recursion, history and the introduction to computer science. The last two topics in this list will be of smaller weight than the other topics.