Exam Structure 
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a. The exam will take 50 minutes exam and will be held in discussion
   session (not in lecture).  Lecture will still take place on Monday.

b. The exam will be closed book/closed notebooks. No calculators are
   allowed.  (We recommend using a pencil and eraser, rather than a
   pen.)

c. Format:

    i. Short answer questions.
       (This includes for example, multiple choice, True/False and
       fill-in-the-blank type quesitons.)

   ii. Code analysis questions.
       (We will give a short segment of code and you may be asked to
       identify syntax and logical errors, or to generate code output)

  iii. Write a program/code snippets to solve a few given problems.
       (You should be prepared to give a complete program, including
       full class heading and main method, but we may also ask you to
	   provide just a single method or a fragment.)

Midterm #2 Topics
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Disclaimer: Everything that has been covered in lecture, in discussion,
or on homeworks is fair play.  The following is a list of topics to help
in studying.  (We have tried to be complete, but we might have forgotten
a few topics.  If you don't see your favorite topic here, please check
with us, since it may just be an oversight.)

Java-Specific Elements:
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  - Pass by value
  - Return values
  - Strings (including conversion to/from primitive types)
  - Variables (instance, parameter, local, shadowing)
  - Loops (while, for, do-while), nested loops
  - switch statement
  - break and continue statements
  - Interfaces
  - Arrays (of primitives and of references), passing as parameters
    and returning arrays from methods
  - Packages
  - Javadoc

General Progamming Issues:
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  - Program Design
  - Testing
  - Debugging
  - Model-View-Controller design pattern (for GUI programming)
  - Event-driven programming and callbacks
  - Shallow/Deep copying
  - Privacy leaks
  - Program documentation
  - Call stack and Heap

Java Class Library:
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You should know how to use the following classes, and what their general
capabilities are, but you do not have to memory the specific methods or
their signatures.  If you need them, we will provide them to you.

  - String
  - JOptionPane
  - Wrappers for primitive types
  - Random
  - StringBuffer
  - Stack

Reading in Lewis and Loftus
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You are not responsible for material from Lewis and Loftus that has not
been discussed in lecture, but it is a good idea to review this material
and the exercises in the back of each chapter, since this will provide
you with a more complete understanding of the material.

Older chapters: (2.7, 3.3, 3.8)
Chapt 5 (5.0-5.2 and 5.5)
Chapt 6 (6.0, 6.1, and 6.3)
Parts of Appendices G and M.