CSE143

Miniquiz 01

January 9, 2003

1 point per part; no partial credit (12 points possible)

Answers in red boldface

[On T/F questions, please answer by circling the T or the F.]

1. T / F The following statement (or words to that effect) appear in the 143 syllabus: "Students can work together on any homework project as long as the amount of code they share does not exceed twenty percent of the total."

2. T / F The following statement (or words to that effect) appear in the 143 syllabus: "Students can work together on any homework project as long as the amount of code they share does not exceed five percent of the total."

3. T / F The following statement (or words to that effect) appear in the 143 syllabus: "This is a programming course."

4. T / F The following statement (or words to that effect) appear in the 143 syllabus: "This is not a programming course."

5. On Project 0, according to its instructions, is the following required or just recommended, or neither?  Answer by circling your choice (1 pt each).

•         (required / just recommended  / neither) Not modifying P0Main.java
•         (required / just recommended / neither) Not adding any methods to CharGenerator.java
•         (required / just recommended / neither) Preparing a disk with specific files on it to turn in.

6. T / F In yesterday's lecture (and in the slides covered), there was a discussion of behavior vs. state.

7. T / F The terms method and message are roughly synonymous, method being the fancier and more technical term.

8. T / F In the slides that were at the end of yesterday's slide set and not covered in class because the professor ran out of time, but which are nevertheless required reading, one of the topics was the toString method.

9. T / F In the textbook reading assigned for yesterday, package was one of the concepts defined.

10. Which one of the statements below (or words to that effect) appear in the 143 syllabus?  Circle A or B

           A. Late homework will not be accepted.

            B. Late homework will not be accepted, unless of course if the consultant didn't show in the IPL as scheduled, and when he did show up he couldn't debug my problem, and then the professor changed the whole assignment and it was poorly worded to begin with and the TAs gave out contradictory advice and then there was a power failure followed by a virus that wiped out my hard drive just as the dog was about to eat it, and my goldfish died tragically.

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