CSC108 Final Exam - All Sections

CSC108 Final Exam - All Sections
Winter 2000

What you may bring

The aids allowed for the final exam are:

Your textbook (Arnow & Weiss)
The API reference (either the version you got from the bookstore or the textbook by Lewis & Loftus)

You may write in your textbook if you wish, and you may put bookmarks in it. On the bookmarks, you may write labels, but not notes or program text.

What you may not bring

You are not allowed to bring:

Your notes
Any book other than your textbook and the API reference
Your calculator.

Chapters covered

You are responsible for all chapters in the text book that correspond to the material covered in the lectures. See the course outline for a list of which chapters were covered each week.

Please note that we wouldn't ask you about material that is in the text book, but was not covered in the lectures. As mentioned earlier, the final exam will not cover applets or the other material in the "GUI Supplements" sections of the text.

How to Study

I would recommend that you start studying by making sure you have read the relevant chapters in the text book. I would then suggest concentrating on the material that was covered during the lectures.

Make sure you understand the difference between the way primitive type and class type variables work. Know how to to convert between different types of variables. Be sure to understand the predefined String methods and how to process Strings. Make sure you know how to make a class that can be used to have objects created from it. Review the inheritance example that was covered in tutorial 12 and the exam question that was taken up in tutorial 13. We also covered topics such as arrays and Vectors in the lectures.

Reading the text book and lecture notes will help a lot, but your best way of ensuring that you'll do well on the final exam is by practicing writing programs. Remember, you study best by writing programs, not by reading books!! Use the old final exams provided on the web pages to quiz yourself. They will definitely be helpful. Allow yourself to use your textbook and API as you would during the actual exam. Then look at the solutions for the old final exams to see where you had trouble.

Kinds of questions

You can assume that the final exam will have five questions. It will likely be similar in format to the final exams given by Jim Clarke in 1999.