CMSC132 Midterm #1

Date: Tuesday, Jun 27, 2006

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

• Software Life Cycle
• Software Development Problems
• Waterfall Model
• Unified Software Life Cycle
• Problem Specification
• Program Design
• Abstraction
• Encapsulation
• Object-Oriented Design
• Inheritance
• UML Diagrams
• Designing UML class diagrams
• Generating UML class diagrams for Java classes
• Specific Java Topics
  • Definition and use of classes in inheritance relationships
  • Defiinition and use of Java Interfaces
  • ArrayList
  • Comparable Interface
  • Instance Variable initialization (both static and non-static)
  • Initialization blocks
  • References
  • "this"
  • "super"
  • Collection class methods (those used for the projects)
  • Iterator interface
  • Enhanced for loop
  • Enumerated types
  • Autoboxing and Unboxing
  • Exceptions Fundamentals
  • Visibility Modifiers
  • Inner Classes
  • Anonymous Classes
• Program Testing
• Model View Controller

The exam will NOT cover the following topics::

• Eclipse
• Swing (GUIs)

Readings From Koffman/Wolfgang

You are not responsible for material from Koffman/Wolfgang that has not been discussed in lecture and or lab, 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. 

Practice Material

• Practice Questions (Note: Keep in mind that some questions cover material that is not part of the current midterm).
  • Questions
  • Solutions
• Old Exams (Note: Keep in mind that the material covered by the exam may not be the same material we are covering this semester)
  •  Midterm1Spring06.pdf, Midterm1Fall05.pdf
• Practice Problems
  • From Koffman/Wolfgang
    • Chapter 2 - Review Questions 1-6, Page 122
    • Chapter 3 - Review Questions 1-9, Page 188

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