e03 (12pm–3pm) : Final Exam
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e03 (12pm–3pm) | true | Final Exam | Thu 06/11 12:00PM |
The final will be on Gradescope. It’s called “Final”—it’ll become available at 11:30am on June 11. It’s open book and open notes, and must be done individually.
The midterm will be a timed exam that you can take any time within a 24-hour period, starting at 11:30am on June 11. You’ll have 3 hours to complete the exam after you start it (unless you’ve requested DSP accomodations, of course!)
Lawton will be available (via Zoom) from 12pm–3pm on June 11 to answer any questions. See the office hours page for his Zoom link.
If you take the exam at a different time than the scheduled time and ask a Piazza question about it, keep in mind that it may not be answered in time.
Final Exam
Exam topics
You are expected to know all the material covered in class. Most of the emphasis will be on topics covered in post midterm 1 - such as dynamic memory allocation, heap vs stack, linked-lists, iteration through lists, pointer arithmetic, strings and recursion on linked-lists and strings
You must know all material covered in lecture, the homeworks, and the labs. Special emphasis will be placed in labs 6–8.
Here are some important topics that you should definitely expect questions on:
- Flow control if-else statements
- Data types and declarations
- While loops
- For loops
- Evaluating expressions
- Data representation
- Arrays
- Passing parameters to functions
- Passing arrays to functions and returning arrays from functions
- Pointers
- Structs
- Pointers and structs
- Pointers and arrays
- Arrays of structs
- Dynamic Memory Allocation
- Linked-lists
- Strings
- Iteration through lists
- Recursion on linked lists and strings
Exam resources
- Pracice problem: Please go through the problems in our Concept Inventory for additional preparation.
- Consolidated exam notes
Solutions to all homeworks
Past exams
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Past exams: You may also refer to all the past exams. Please note that some questions on these exams may refer to labs that you have not completed so far. You will only be asked questions related to the labs you have completed. The past exams should however provide some information on the expected difficulty and approximate format of the exam. Please note that there may be differences in content as well.
- Spring’18 - midterm 1
- Spring’18 Midterm 1 solutions
- Spring’17 - midterm 2
- Spring’17 Midterm 2 solutions
- Spring’17 - midterm 1
- Spring’17 Midterm 1 solutions
- Winter’17 - midterm 1
- Winter’17 Midterm 1 solutions
- Winter’17 - midterm 2 (Ignore questions in Part 3)
- Winter’17 Midterm 2 solutions
- Winter’17-Final
- Spring’17-Final
- Winter’18-Final