Thursday, December 14, 2006, 8:00 am to 10:00 am Not the usual class day or time

Final Exam Study Guide

Material Covered:

Comprehensive Exam covering the whole semester.  All of the topics will be taken from the Daily Topics web pages on this web site.  Your best study strategy is to review through the web pages and make sure that you understand all of the concepts presented in the Daily Topics.

In particular the following coding skills will be tested:

•   expressions, arithmetic (+  -  *  /  %), relational (<  <=  >  >=  ==  !=), and boolean (&&  | |  !)
•   if statements and switch statements
•   loops:  while,  for,  do - while
•   functions, including calls, definitions, and prototypes (prototypes are mostly C but also in Java)
•   pass-by-value and pass-by-reference parameters
•   arrays
•   classes and objects 

Questions:

• 12 questions
• Questions will be mostly multiple choice.  The questions may also include analyzing pieces of supplied code and writing the output or the result when the code runs, or writing specific pieces of programs related to a specific described task. 
• The questions will all be about Java.  C or C++ will not be on the test.

Environment:

• Administered on Angel
• Open book, open notes, open computer
• The questions will not just be finding of facts or terms.  They will require understanding what the concepts mean and applying those concepts to small snippets of code. 
• The full two hour final period (8:00 am to 10:00 am).  There should be no time pressure, but you will not be given extra time if you show up late.  (If Scott is late or mumbling incoherently, everyone will be given a full two hours from when he regains lucidity, if needed).

Grading:

• 12 points, one for each question
• Graded by Angel, or by me manually on Angel for code that you write.