Final Exam

Final Exam: Wednesday, May 23, 2018

NEW!! 18sp final exam, (Solution)

• Exam policies
  • Closed book, closed notes.
  • The following syntax sheet will be provided. [ PDF ]
  • No calculators
  • The exam begins promptly at 2:30 and ends at 3:20.
  • Points will be deducted from your score if you are writing after time has been called.
  • You do NOT need to bring a blue book or mark sense (bubble sheet)
  • In questions where you are asked to write code, you do NOT need to add comments unless explicitly asked for.
  • You should only use parts of Python that have been covered in the class so far.
• All material from the course so far is fair game. Material up to and including Fri May 18 on Classes is fair game. Material from lecture, sections, checkins, and homework are all fair game.

Topic List

• Everything prior to the midterm (including files, mutability).
• Rough list of topics since the midterm:
• Data Structures - Tuples, Nested Structures (lists of dicts, dicts of dicts, etc.)
• Interpreting Exceptions - What process would you use to track down bugs like the ones from April 30?
• Debugging - Give multiple examples of using divide and conquer in debugging. Given a piece of code, identify what type of error exists. Create a piece of code that would generate a certain error.
• Testing - Why do we test? How do we test a program? parts of a program? Given a piece of code, write some tests as assertions.
• Program development - What are the benefits of functions? What are stubs and why are they useful?
• Visualization - Nothing beyond knowing how to plot a simple line as we did with the airport delay example on May 7.
• Statistics - Needed to understand HW6 but will not be on the final exam.
• Data Abstraction - Why is data abstraction useful? Why are classes useful? Write simple client code for a class. Implement a simple method in a class.

Sample Exam Problems

We provide a few old exams to help with your studying. Our hope is that these exams will be useful in your studying, *but you should NOT take them as a guarantee of exactly what your exam will be like this quarter*. I would also suggest going back through problem sheets used in all sections so far as these are good example questions as well. If you want more practice writing functions you may also find the examples from CodingBat to be a useful way to practice.

Note: Although several of these sample exams include questions on recursion (e.g. functions that call themselves, writing base cases), and list comprehensions recursion and list comprehensions will NOT be on our final exam for 18sp.

• 17wi final (Solution)
• 16wi final (Solution)
• 15sp final (Solution)
• 14wi final (Solution)
• Final from 13wi (Solution)

You may also want to look at the sample materials from the midterm.

Good luck with your exam studying!