CMSC132 Midterm #1
Date: Monday, Feb 27, 2006
Time/Location: Carefully read
the following table to find the room and time associated with your exam.
| Section |
Time |
Room |
| 0101,0102 |
12:00 pm -12:50 pm (In Lecture) |
CSI 2117 |
| 0201,0202 |
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm (In Lecture) |
CSI 2117 |
| Honor Section |
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm (In Lab) |
CSI 2120 |
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 projects 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
- BitSet
- ArrayList
- Iterator interface
- Enhanced for loop
- Enumerated types
- 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::
Readings From Koffman/Wolfgang
You are not responsible for material from Koffman/Wolfgang 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.
Practice Material
- Practice Questions
- Old Exam (Note: Keep
in mind that the material covered by the exam may not be the same material
we are covering this semester)
- Practice Problems
- From Koffman/Wolfgang
- Chapter 2 - Review Questions 1-6, Page 122
- Chapter 3 - Review Questions 1-9, Page 188
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