MidtermInfo

CMSC132 Spring 2016 (Midterm I Information)

General Information

Date: Wednesday, Mar 2
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.
The best way to prepare for the exam is to practice old exams. Complete several of them in the allocated time specified in the exam.
We curve in this course. After you taken the exam, do not discuss anything associated with the exam with other students that have not taken the exam yet.
Posting any information in Piazza about the exam after taking it is considered an academic integrity violation.
Please bring a stapler if you tend to separate the pages of 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, 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 (#1 and #2) including the following topics:

Object-Oriented Programming Principles (Abstraction, Encapsulation, etc.)
Testing/Program Correctness
Event-Driven Programming
Model-View-Controller
Object-Oriented Design
Specific Java Topics
- Definition and use of classes in inheritance relationships
- Definition and use of Java Interfaces
- Abstract Classes
- Arrays
- 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
- Visibility Modifiers
- Method Overloading/Overriding
- Packages
- Inner Classes (anonymous inner classes will not be part of the exam)
Program Testing - JUnit testing
Algorithmic Complexity I
You need to understand generic classes, but you do not need to know how to define them

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

UML, Eclipse, GUI material (but you need to know how to use inner class to add functionality to swing buttons), Linked lists, Hashing, Sets/Maps, Defining Generic Classes

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 or in this midterm. 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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