CMSC106 Fall 2017 (Final Information)

General Information

• Date: Saturday, Dec 16
• Time/Location: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (CSIC 1121)
• Duration: 120 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: cp, ls, rm, cd
• 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- and Two-dimensional arrays
  • const modifier
  • Function stack
  • Strings
  • You are responsible for the following string functions
    • strlen
    • strcmp
    • strcpy
  • typedef
  • structures
  • command-line arguments
• Design
• Pseudocode
• Memory Maps/Diagrams
• Testing

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

• gdb debugger, Emacs, file I/O, recursion, malloc/calloc/free (dynamic memory allocation)

Practice Material

Go over all the previous midterm exams, worksheets and lab exercises we have provided in ELMS.

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