Exams

As stated on the syllabus:

The midterm and final exams are open note and open web. Students may consult any printed or digital materials and may perform web searches. However, no communication with other humans is permitted.
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Technically speaking, any material covered in any lecture, reading, or homework assignment is eligible to appear in the midterm or final exams. In practice, a strong majority of exam questions will be similar to a homework question, an example done in class, or other assigned practice questions.

Following is some additional clarification of the above syllabus statements. Students are encouraged to use all appropriate tools, including Eclipse, web searches, and existing content on programming websites and forums. However, it is not permitted to seek help from other humans either directly or via an online forum.

Exams will be provided in Microsoft Word format.

Exam solutions should be submitted to GitHub using the same methodology as for homework assignments: answers that involve writing source code are pushed to the relevant Java files in GitHub; non-code answers are inserted into a PDF document which is pushed to the noncode-answers directory in GitHub. Non-code answers may include handwritten solutions that have been scanned or photographed.

The number of points allocated to a question indicates approximately how many minutes it would take a well-prepared student to complete that question. Example: a 5-point question should take about five minutes to answer, assuming you have already mastered all relevant concepts.

Students with academic accommodations receive extra time in the normal way. For example, if the stated time to submit the exam is 24 hours, a student who normally receives time-and-a-half for tests will have 36 hours to complete the exam.

Midterm Exam 1

Exam 1 covers material from Topics 1-4. The exam begins at the start of class on the designated day of the exam (Thursday October 6, 2022). The exam will be of a length that could typically be completed in a 75-minute class session. However, all students will have 24 hours to complete and submit the exam to GitHub. Late submissions will be penalized by 5% per hour.

The exam can be downloaded from Moodle via a link that will become active five minutes before the start of the exam.

Questions about the exam can be asked in person, or sent to the instructor by email or Microsoft Teams. The instructor will make reasonable efforts to respond in a timely fashion, but it is best to ask any questions within the first 75 minutes of the exam to ensure a timely response.

Midterm Exam 2

The instructions for midterm exam 2 are the same as for midterm exam 1, except that:

Final Exam

The instructions for the final exam are the same as for midterm exams, except that:

Last modified: Wed Dec 07 15:02:32 UTC 2022 by jmac.