CPSC 409: Midterm II Information
Exam dates/times
Midterm II topics
- Topics from Midterm I that could show up
again on Midterm II (albeit in a minor form).
- Exam instructions and general
information1 (that is,
information from this link as well as the [general
exam information link] can show up as questions on the exam).
- Administrative lecture material
(grading and other topics covered at the start of the term).
- There will be a roughly equal proportion of questions from each of these
three sections:
- Charles Babbage and his machines
- The mechanical monsters
- The electronic revolution
- SPCs and memory types (becomes a part of
Midterm III)
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.
Sample non-multiple question: Mechanical monsters
Briefly describe how to convert a value from regular
binary (the most common representation for binary and likely what you were
taught when introduced to non-decimal number systems such as octal and
hexadecimal) to Binary Coded Decimal (BCD). [Solution]
Number of questions
1: Miscellaneous: could include questions that
don't fall neatly into one of the other categories or span multiple sections of
the course.