Midterm Info

• Midterm exam on Wednesday, Oct 19th during class time
• You will have 50 minutes to complete the exam. Timing can be 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 you are sick or unable to make the midterm, please contact the instructor ASAP. Instructor may require University's Health Care Provider Statement, or some other form of proof. Doctor's note is not always requried.

Material

• Course material summary
• Lectures: All material covered up to and including slide deck 8 (Agile), as listed in the Course Material Summary
• Textbook material not covered in lecture is not testable
• Assignments 1-3 (see topic list).

Resources in Exam

• No 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 tend to be challenging questions!
• Short answer.
• Understand, explain, and apply software engineering ideas.
• Understand Android concepts, read or write some Android code (see course material summary).
• 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...
• 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!