Basic Information for CSE303 Au09 Midterm
- Topics
- C
Programming – up to pointers/heap allocation
- Concepts
– for example and at a very high-level
- Compilers,
operating systems, run-time
systems
- Performance
- Bootstrapping
- Code
vs. data
-
- Not
covering ethics (but the final will include this)
- 50
minutes.
Open notes, open book, closed any kind of electronics
(including
calculators and cell phones), closed neighbor
- Past
exams [see the Spring 09 303 page for many examples] have been
dominantly “write a command or script or program to do x.”
We’ll have some of that, but significantly
less – it’s very hard to grade, among other things.
There will be some, but more limited … and in
addition …
- There
may be some true/false … and possible
true/false with explanation
- There
may be some multiple choice
- There
may be some short answer questions
- There
will be some commands/scripts/code for which
you have to determine what they do – and perhaps modify them to do
something
different/better