Final Exam

Date: Friday, Aug 5, 2005
Time: 8:50am-10:50am
Location: Lecture classroom

Exam Structure:

• The exam will take 2 hours.
• 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, or to produce a memory map.
• 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 final exam will include all the material covered in discussion session, lecture, quizzes, and homeworks including all topics covered in the first two midterms (see Midterm 1 Topics, and Midterm 2 Topics) and the following topics:

• one and two dimensional arrays (of both primitive types and of objects) and their initialization
• packages
• bitwise operators
• conditional operator
• exceptions
• try-catch blocks
• inheritance ("extends")
• "super"
• "this "(as a pointer, and as a method call to call an alternative constructor)
• overriding, overloading, shadowing, late-binding
• polymorphism
• getClass and instanceof
• abstract classes
• access specifiers ("public", "protected", "private", and "default")
• other modifiers ("final", "static")
• interfaces ("implements") and multiple inheritance
• Sorting
• "Big-Oh" Notation
• Java library classes/interfaces:
  • Object (java.lang)
  • Math (java.lang)
  • ArrayList (java.util)
  • StringBuffer (java.lang)
  • Iterator (Interface: java.util)
  • Comparable (Interface: java.lang)

Note that the exam will NOT cover the following topics::

• GUI (Swing)
• Applets

Reading in Lewis and Loftus

You are not responsible for material from Lewis and Loftus that has not been discussed in lecture, 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.

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