Midterm Exam Information
Exam Policies
- Closed book
- Closed notes
- No calculators or other electronic devices
- Begins promptly at 2:30 and ends promptly at 3:20
- Additional details are in the
midterm exam instructions
Topics Covered
The midterm covers all the course material up through and including
the UNION-FIND and its implementation using Up Trees with UNION by weight
and path compression.
Topics include stacks, queues, simple proofs by induction,
logs and exponents, geometric series,
asymptotic analysis, dictionaries, AVL
trees, union-find, disjoint sets and hash tables. All material covered on the exam
will have been discussed in class or covered on an assignment,
though you may be asked to apply ideas in slightly new ways.
Exam Format and Sample Midterms
Our exam will consist of various types of short-answer questions.
You may be asked to write or read Java code or pseudocode. Below are
several sample exams from prior offerings of CSE 373 but please
understand these caveats:
- We are having one midterm this quarter. Many previous quarters had two midterms. Only pay attention to questions that cover material on the topics we have discussed in lecture.
- Topics covered on these exams may not be the exact same topics
covered on our exam; please see above for the topics covered on our
exam.
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The sample exams are provided as a study guide, not as
any guarantee of the format of our actual midterm in terms of
length or type of questions. We think you will find the actual exam somewhat familiar
compared to the sample midterms, but some differences are likely.
Sample exams:
Additional Study Suggestions
- Re-work problems from lecture and assignments.
- Practice all the operations on stacks and queues, binary search trees, AVL trees, the UNION-FIND ADT, hash tables.
- Practice analysis of algorithms and review big O, Omega, and Theta. Remember how to do simple induction proofs, and
the basic mathematical ideas covered in A3 and the 2nd lecture.