CSE143 Notes for Friday, 12/7/12

We mostly discussed the structure of the final. I showed the following breakdown of points:

                                                   Sample     Section
     Problem    Area                     Points     Mean       Mean
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
        1       Binary Tree Traversal       6        5.8        5.7
        2       Binary Search Tree          4        3.6        3.3
        3       Collections Mystery         5        3.3        4.6
        4       Collections Programming     5        4.6        3.9
        5       Binary Trees               10        7.1        8.7
        6       Collections Programming    10        7.8        8.4
        7       Comparable class           20       17.3       16.0
        8       Binary Trees               20       12.8       14.8
        9       Linked Lists               20        8.3       10.8
                ---------------------------------------------------
                Total                     100       71.5        77.2
                                                 (median 73)(median 81)
I said that the actual final will have the same kind of problems with the same distribution of points. The column labeled "Sample Mean" indicates the average scores students got on the sample final (handout #32). The column labeled "Section Mean" indicates the average scores students got on the sample final distributed in section.

I reminded everyone that the exam is closed-book and closed-note. There is a two-page cheat sheet that will be attached to the test.


Stuart Reges
Last modified: Fri Dec 7 15:17:24 PST 2012