See the course calendar for the exact times and locations of the exams.
The exams will focus on theoretical material, especially proofs of correctness. HW8-9 fall between the two exams and focus on practical skills, namely, building full-stack applications.
The midterm exam is largely practice for the final. It is worth only half as many points (about the same as HW8 and HW9) and should have easier problems than will appear on the final.
The midterm exam has four problems:
Here are some similar problems from homework and section materials:
Since students often ask for them, here are some additional practice exams. These are not necessary representative of our problems (since they are from different quarters and instructors), but they cover similar topics.
| Test | Code Review | Writing Loops | Writing Functions | Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| example final (soln) | Q1 | Q4 | Q2, Q5 | |
| 19wi (soln) | Q1 | Q2 | Q5 | |
| 16sp (soln) | Q3 | Q6 | Q7 |
Note that our testing problem will differ from these. Rather than giving a template to fill in for each test, we will ask you to write the code that calls assert.deepStrictEquals for each test.
The final will be longer (1 hour and 50 minutes, versus a 50 minute midterm), but will cover the same core material as the midterm. However, we will attempt to be slightly more comprehensive. The following are some examples of topics that could appear on the final:
For the most of these topics, the homeworks and lectures are the best review material. For the second to last item, you can find some example problems on the 19wi exams page. However, note that these problems include some things we did not cover such as additional design patterns and details of Java equals and hashCode.