CMSC106 Fall 2012 (Midterm I Information)

General Information

• Date: Thursday, Oct 11
• 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, 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 (#1 and #2) including the following topics:

• Unix - You must be familiar with the following commands
  • cp
  • ls
  • cd
  • pwd
  • gcc
  • diff
• Computer Organization
• 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
• Pseudocode

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

• Emacs, debugger, math library functions, defining functions other than main(), continue statement

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