CMSC106 Fall 2017 (Midterm II Information)

General Information

• Date: Monday, Nov 20
• Time/Location: Your exam will take place in lecture (5 pm)
• Duration: 70 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 focus on the topics covered after the midterm I, but include all the material covered in discussion session (lab), lecture, quizzes, and projects (#1, #2, #3, and #4) including the following topics:

• C Language
  • Preprocessor directives (#include, #define)
  • Variables
  • Expressions
  • Operators
  • Conditional statements
  • switch statement
  • Input/Ouput (scanf/printf)
  • Loops(while, do while, for loops)
  • break statement
  • continue statement
  • Defining functions
  • Function Prototypes
  • Random Number Generation
  • Casting
  • Pointers
  • One-dimensional arrays
  • const modifier
  • Function stack
  • Strings
  • You are responsible for the following string functions
    • strlen
    • strcmp
    • strcpy
  • typedef
• Design
• Pseudocode
• Memory Maps/Diagrams
• Testing

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

• Unix, gdb debugger, Emacs, structures, command line arguments

Practice Material

Go over all the worksheets and lab exercises we have provided. Previous midterms can be found at prev_exams.zip.

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