Final Exam

Date: Monday, Jan 24, 2005
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Usual lecture classroom

Exam Structure:

• The exam will take 2 hours.
• 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, or to produce a memory map.
• 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 final exam will include all the material covered in discussion session, lecture, quizzes, and homeworks including all topics covered in the midterm.  In addition the following topics are part of the final exam material.

• one and two dimensional arrays (of both primitive types and of objects) and their initialization
• packages
• bitwise operators
• conditional operator
• exceptions
• try-catch blocks
• inheritance ("extends")
• "super"
• "this "(as a pointer, and as a method call to call an alternative constructor)
• overriding, overloading, shadowing, late-binding
• polymorphism
• getClass and instanceof
• abstract classes
• access specifiers ("public", "protected", "private", and "default")
• other modifiers ("final", "static")
• interfaces ("implements") and multiple inheritance
• Java library classes/interfaces:
  • Object (java.lang)
  • Math (java.lang)
  • ArrayList (java.util)
  • StringBuffer (java.lang)
  • Iterator (Interface: java.util)
  • Comparable (Interface: java.lang)

Note that the exam will NOT cover the following topics::

• GUI (Swing)
• Applets
• Unix

Practice Material:

We will not post old exams, however, we have provided the following practice questions (Review Questions). The code associated with this questions is available in the file FinalPractice-Snippets.jar .

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