Midterm Info

General Info

• Midterm exam IN PERSON on Friday, Oct 25th during class time in SRYE 1002.
• You will have 50 minutes to complete the exam. Timing often tight on the midterm, so watch your time.
• You may not be able to write exam if you arrive more than 30 minutes late.
• If sick, please email instructor and stay home. In many cases no doctor's note is required. Instructor may require University's Health Care Provider Statement.
• Mock Midterm
  • Sample midterm
  • Solution to sample midterm

Material

• See Learning Outcomes
• Lectures: All content before Binary Representation (BUT NOT INCLUDING IT)
• Weekly exercises for weeks 1-6

Resources in Exam

• You are allowed one 8.5" x 11" sheet of notes: hand written, single side. You can write anything you like on it.
  Note: You are not allowed a mobius-sheet of notes.
• No other aids permitted, such as: calculators, textbooks, dictionaries, cell-phones, smart-watches, pocket-gnome, poll-the-audience, or ask-a-friend.
• I will be happy to explain non-technical terms.

Possible Question Types

• Multiple choice. Warning: These can be challenging.
• Short answer.
• State the output of some code.
• Understand, explain, and writing Python code and algorithms.
• Exam is written on paper: no computers.

Practice Questions

Practice questions from class: See the slide decks.

• Questions embedded in the slide notes.
• Questions in the self-test slides.

Exam Directions

• Find a seat with an exam.
  • Do not sit near your friends or study-mates: they think like you do!
  • If you like to look around, then sit at the front.
• Take out:
  • Your Student ID
  • Writing tools: pens, pencils, eraser, whiteout...
  • Water bottle, cookies...
  • Crib-notes sheet.
• Put everything else at the front of the room.
  • Cell phones and smart-watches off and at front. Not for checking time.
• Fill out the front of the exam.
• Any academic dishonesty may lead to a grade of 0 for the entire exam.
  • Touching a cell phone / smart-watch during the exam will be considered academic dishonesty.
• Communicate only with a TA or the instructor.
  • Do not look around room at other students.
  • When thinking, look up, not around the room.
• Cover your paper as much as reasonably possible.
• You have 50 minutes once told to begin.
• You may not leave the exam during the first 30 minutes, or the last ~10 minutes.