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CPSC 409: Midterm III Information

(Additional details will be added as we get closer to the exam date so you should check back here later).

Exam dates/times

Multiple-choice review questions:

• They will take the form of D2L Quizzes (Assessments->Quizzes)
• During lecture as I covered the material I will provided suggestions of what an exam-like question may look like. You can look to your class notes for this info and note the details as it comes up.

This Q&A isn't going to show up as an exam question I'm just including it to answer a question I will get if I don't answer it here.

Student question: Why is it called 'Midterm III' if the exam is scheduled during final exam weeks?

Quick answer: The university is making me.

Longer answer: I used to have the third midterm scheduled on the last day of the semester. Students seem to like getting this exam out of the way, there wasn't a single complaint even a few smiles. Over time the university starting adding more and more rules and regulations. Some new rules were good additions that ended up protecting students and Teaching Assistants. Other rules took the 'blanket' approach (some might say thermonuclear). Because there were issues with some courses now all courses would be restricted. Because there are limits on the size of the proportion of grading component during the last week of the term this last midterm had to be moved to the weeks when actual final exams were scheduled. But as you can see below this last exam isn't designed as typical final exam, there are any questions that specifically evaluate the earlier topics. (Indirectly you might need knowledge of earlier topics to understand later topics but unlike a class like an introductory computer science class those cases are few and far between).

Possible Midterm III topics and approximate proportions

This last midterm will continue off (in terms of coverage) where the last midterm left off.

• Mainframes and super computers (minor topic)
• The history of the Internet (major topic)
• Early private networks (major topic)
• Microcomputers and major software houses: (major topic)
• Video and computer games (minor topic)
• Games Part I (Consoles): all of these notes can be on the final exam
• Games Part II (Video and computer games): screens 1 - 15, up to and including the Donkey Kong game) may be covered on the final exam

Exam questions

• ~4 - 5 non-multiple choice questions (worth approximately 1/3 of the marks of the exam)
• ~45 - 55 multiple-choice questions