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: Thu 07/18/2013.
- Main topics: assignments, types, conditionals, while/for loops.
- Reading: textbook chapters 1, 2.
- Relevant lectures: 1, 2, 3, 4. (see slides and example code).
- Practice midterm: PDF, Word
- Second midterm: Mon 08/05/2013.
- Main topics: assignments, types, conditionals, loops, containers (lists and tuples), strings, functions, program execution and program state.
- Reading: textbook chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 (excluding 4.4 and 4.7), 6, 7 (excluding 7.10, and any references to files).
- Relevant lectures: 1 through 11 (see slides and example code).
- Practice questions
- Final exam: Monday August 12, 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 (excluding 4.4 and 4.7), 5 (excluding 5.6, and any reference to try-except), 6, 7 (excluding 7.10), 9.1, 9.2, 10.
- 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
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Update 1: 08/10/2013, 10:25am: Added three new problems to the practice questions (problems 9, 13, 14). The new problems involve dictionaries.