MidtermInfo

CMSC132 Spring 2012 (Midterm Information)

General Information

Date: Friday, March 30, 2012
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, 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:

Object-Oriented Programming Principles (Abstraction, Encapsulation, etc.)
Testing/Program Correctness
Event-Driven Programming
Generics (be prepared to define generic classes)
Algorithm Complexity
Linear Data Structures (linked lists, stacks, queues, etc.)
Sets, Maps
Hashing
Specific Java Topics
- Definition and use of classes in inheritance relationships
- Definition and use of Java Interfaces
- ArrayList
- Iterators
- Comparable Interface
- Comparator classes
- "this"
- "super"
- Collections class methods (those used for the projects)
- Enhanced for loop
- Enumerated types
- Autoboxing and Unboxing
- Exceptions Fundamentals
- Visibility Modifiers
- Method Overloading/Overriding
- Packages
- Inner Classes
Program Testing - JUnit testing

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

Eclipse, Trees, Recursion, Heaps, File I/O

Practice Material

Below we have included selected previous exams for the course. Keep in mind that the material covered by the exams may not be the same material we are covering this semester. We recommend you complete the following midterms in the allocated time specified in the exam. In addition, do not read a problem and assume you know how to solve it; try to solve it.

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