CMSC131 Fall 2015 (Final Information)

General Information

• Date: Tuesday, Dec 15, 2015
• Time: 4pm-6pm
• Location:
  • Pedram's Sections
    • Sections 01XX and 02XX - ARM 0126
    • Sections 03XX - ARM 0131
  • Nelson's Sections
    • Section 04XX and 05XX - BRB 1101
• Duration: 120 minutes
• Closed-book, Closed-notebooks, No Computers/Calculators.
• Use a pencil/mechanical pencil (no pen) to answer the exam.

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, 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:

• Computer Organization
• Java Numeric/String/Logical Operators
• Scanner Class
• Blocks and Scoping
• Constants
• Loops
• String Class
• Constructors
• Access Specifiers
• Instance Variables
• Static Variables
• Instance Methods
• Static Methods
• equals Method
• toString Method
• get/set Methods
• JOptionPane Class
• Memory Maps
• Call Stack
• Parameter Passing
• Privacy Leaks
• "this" keyword
• Visibility
• Encapsulation
• Exception handling
• StringBuffer
• Mutability
• One and Two Dimensional Arrays
• Reference, Shallow, Deep Copying
• Ragged Arrays
• Wrappers
• Stack
• ArrayList
• Switch Statement
• Interfaces
• Polymorphism
• Method Overloading/Overriding
• Inheritance
• Iterators
• getClass(), super, instanceof
• Javadoc
• for-each loops
• Java packages

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

• JUnit, Eclipse, Debugger, CVS, Sorting, Big O

Practice Material

Plenty of material is available in the Study Questions section of the class web page. We have also provided some practice material at practiceMaterial.zip.

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