CMSC132 Midterm #1

Date: Friday, October 7, 2005

Time/Location: Carefully read the following table to find the room and time associated with your exam. Note the new time and location! 

Exam Structure

• The exam will have a duration of 50 minutes.
• The exam will be closed book/closed notebooks. No calculators are allowed. (We recommend using a pencil and eraser, rather than a pen.)
• Format:
• Short answer questions: This includes for example, multiple choice, True/False and fill-in-the-blank type questions.
• Code analysis questions: We will give a short segment of code and you may be asked to identify syntax and logical errors, generate code output, etc.
• Code Writing: Write a program/code snippets to solve a few given problems. (You should be prepared to give a complete program, including full class heading, import, package statement, and main methods, but we may also ask you to provide just a single method or a code fragment.)

Topics

The exam will include all the material covered in discussion session (lab), lecture, quizzes, and homeworks including the following topics:

• Software Life Cycle
• Software Development Problems
• Waterfall Model
• Unified Software Life Cycle
• Problem Specification
• Program Design
• Abstraction
• Encapsulation
• Object-Oriented Design
• Inheritance
• UML Diagrams
• Designing UML class diagrams
• Generating UML class diagrams for Java classes
• Specific Java Topics
  • Definition and use of classes in inheritance relationships
  • Defiinition and use of Java Interfaces
  • ArrayList
  • Comparable Interface
  • Instance Variable initialization (both static and non-static)
  • Initialization blocks
  • References
  • "this"
  • "super"
  • Collection class methods (those used for the projects)
  • Iterator interface
  • Enhanced for loop
  • Enumerated types
  • Autoboxing and Unboxing
  • Swing (any swing code covered by class examples)
  • Exceptions Fundamentals
  • Garbage Collection
  • Visibility Modifiers
  • Method Overloading
  • Packages
  • Inner Classes
  • Anonymous Classes
• Program Testing
• Model View Controller
• Events
• Swing (any swing code covered by class examples)

The exam will NOT cover the following topics::

• Eclipse
• Unix

Readings From Tymann/Schneider

You are not responsible for material from Tymann/Schneider that has not been discussed in lecture and or lab, 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.  Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4,  9, 10, and 12.

Practice Material

• Practice Questions
  • Questions
  • Solutions
• Practice Problems
  • From Tymann/Schneider
    • Chapter 1 - Exercises 9, 10
    • Chapter 2 - Exercises 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15,
    • Chapter 3 - Exercises 15, 21, 22, 24, 25
    • Chapter 4 - Write an UML class diagram for the exercise 13
    • Chapter 9- Exercises 4, 5, 9 (only build the data structure using an ArrayList), 12, 13
    • Chapter 10 - Exercise 4
    • Chapter 12 - Exercise 5, 6, 7, 17