CMSC216 Fall 2012 (Midterm II Information)

General Information

• Date: Tuesday, Nov 6
• Time/Location: Your exam will take place in lecture.
• Duration: 50 minutes
• Closed-book, Closed-notebooks, No Computers/Calculators.
• Use a pencil/mechanical pencil (no pen) to answer the exam.
• Please take a look at the general exam rules available at Exam Rules.

Exam Structure

• 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 given problem. You should be prepared to give a complete program, but we may also ask you to provide just a single function or a code fragment.

Topics

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

• Unix - You must be familiar with the following commands
  • cp
  • ls
  • cd
  • pwd
  • tar
  • gcc
• C Language
  • Preprocessor directives (e.g., #include, #define, #ifdef)
  • Expressions
  • Bitwise Operators
  • Conditional statements
  • Loops
  • Arrays
  • Strings - You are responsible for the following string functions
    • strlen
    • strcpy
    • strcmp
  • Pointers
  • enum
  • Structures
  • Unions
  • Functions
  • stdin, stderr, stdout
  • Linkage
  • Command line arguments
  • exit
  • perror
  • Dynamic Memory Allocation (malloc, free, etc.)
• Memory maps
• Linked Lists(both singly and doubly linked-lists)
• Hashing (as it relates to our projects)
• Makefiles - You need to know how to define makefiles without using implicit rules.

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

• Reading/Writing from Files, Emacs, Debugger, Assembly, Process Control

Practice Material

Check the quiz worksheets we have posted. In addition, you can practice all fundamental operations associated with linked-lists (add, delete, insert in sorted order, etc.). We have left old exam(s) and some practice questions in the public directory of the grace cluster.

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