CPSC 219: Midterm #1 Information

Date/location:

• The exam will be written during the second half of the lecture on Friday's class Feb 13: commencing at 11:45 AM.

Review material:

• During lecture as I cover the material I will provide suggestions of what an exam-like question may look like. You should attend class for this info and note the details as it comes up.
• Online review questions: the following are meant to provide you with some extra practice so you need to actually try them on your own to get anything out of it. For that reason solutions won't be posted. But if you still have questions after attempting a question then you can ask, just make sure you have tried them first! [Online review questions]

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

(Flip side of cover - top of page showing where you write your student ID number): DON'T FORGET THIS ON THE EXAM

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.
• Text books: can 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 topics

Since this is your first exam in the class it focuses heavily on the basics of writing a program in Java rather than on Object-Oriented principles. Later exams will heavily stress the Object-Oriented principles. In some ways you can look at the first midterm as a 'crash course' of many of the concepts that you learned in your previous course but no using Java.

Exam questions¹

^{1 It's based on a near-final version of the midterm (exact proportions may vary *slightly*)}

^{Mapping of percent to grade point for midterm 1}