Midterm Info

General Info

• Midterm exam IN PERSON on Wednesday, Oct 23th 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 most cases no doctor's note is required. Instructor may require University's Health Care Provider Statement.
• Sample exam from previous semester
  • Sample midterm. Some content covered by us will differ from the the content covered in the sample midterm, but it is shows some of the style of questions that may be asked. Be careful when answering coding questions: check if you should be writing the full program, or just a single function.
  • Solution to sample midterm.
  • (Note: This sample midterm was originally written in C and converted after the fact. You may find that there are some typos in the C++ code).

Material

• Course material summary.
• Lectures: All material covered up to and including slide deck 9 (More on For Loops), as listed in the Course Material Summary.
  • It will not cover anything on representation (binary, hex, ...)
• Assignments 1-3.
• Labs 1-6.
• Textbook material not covered in lecture is not testable; textbook may give better understanding of topics we did cover.
  • suggested exercises from 10th ed of the textbook.
  • suggested exercises from 9th ed of the textbook.

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 C++ code and algorithms.
• Exam is written on paper: no computers.

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.

Good luck!