CMSC132 Midterm #2

Date: Wednesday, Jul 30, 2008

Time/Location: Your exam will take place in lecture.

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 True/False, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank types of 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.)

The exam will include all the material covered in discussion session (lab), lecture, quizzes, and projects including the following topics:

Trees
- Binary Search Trees
- Heaps
- Priority Queues
Event-Driven Programming
Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs) & MVC model
Software Development
- Software Life Cycle
- Software Process Models (Waterfall, Iterative...)
- Problem Specification
- Program Design
- Program Testing
Object-Oriented Design
- UML Diagrams
- Designing UML class diagrams from problem specifications
- Generating UML class diagrams for Java classes
Specific Java Topics
- Inner Classes
- Definition and use of classes in inheritance relationships
- Definition and use of Java Interfaces
- Instance Variable initialization (both static and non-static)
- Initialization blocks
- Constructors
- References
- "this"
- "super"
- Collection class methods (those used for the projects)
- Program scope
- Visibility Modifiers
- Abstract classes, methods
- Final classes, fields

The exam will NOT cover the following topics::

Practice Material