This course has two midterm exams and a final exam. Each exam is worth 20% of the semester grade. All exams are open book, open notes, students can bring any printed or handwritten material for use during the exam. No electronic devices (calculators, laptops, smartphones) are allowed to be used during an exam.
- First midterm: Wednesday July 18, 2012.
- Main topics: assignments, types, conditionals, loops.
- Reading: textbook chapters 1, 2,
- Relevant lectures: 1 to 3 (see slides and example code).
- Practice questions (author: Dr. Darin Brezeale)
- Some notes on practice questions:
- Question 1: these if statements are examples of code that students in this class are not allowed to write, as they treat integers as boolean expressions. At the same time, you should be able to read such code and understand it. To convert this code into code that we approve of in this class, just replace a with (a != 0), b with (b != 0), and c with (c != 0).
- Questions 3, 5, 10, 13, 15, 16, 18: these questions use print statements with so-called format specifiers, which look like %d, %3d, %.1f, etc. We have not covered those in class yet, so you are not required to understand how they work for this exam.
- Questions 4, 5, 9 use print statements that end in a comma. Those statements do NOT print a new line, so the next print statement prints at the same line as the previous one (and to the right of what the previous one printed).
- Second midterm: Monday July 30, 2012.
- Main topics: assignments, types, conditionals, loops, containers (lists and tuples), strings, functions.
- Reading: textbook chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.1, 7.2.
- Relevant lectures: 1 to 11 (see slides and example code).
- Practice questions
- Initial posting: Thursday 07/26/2012, 9:50am. We will be adding more questions in the next day or two.
- Update 1: Thursday 07/26/2012, 3:07pm. Corrections for problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
- Update 2: Saturday 07/28/2012, 9:30am. Rephrased problems 5 and 8 to clarify some possible ambiguities. Also, added problems 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
- Update 3: Saturday 07/28/2012, 10:56am. Added problems 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
- Update 4: Saturday 07/28/2012, 12:07am. Added a clarification to problem 15, that there are multiple correct answers, and fixed a typo on problem 16.
- Final exam: Monday August 13, 10:30am-12:30pm.
- Main topics: assignments, types, conditionals, loops, containers (lists and tuples), strings, functions, file input/output, dictionaries, code design.
- Reading: textbook chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.
- Relevant lectures: all lectures. All slides and example code posted on the lectures page are assumed to be known material for the exam.
- Practice questions
- Initial posting: Thursday 08/09/2012, 1:37pm.
- Update 1: Saturday 08/11/2012, 6:25pm. Added five new problems (problems 7 to 11).