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

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.

Midterm Info