CMPU-101 Exam Preparation Spring 2013

• Exam on Friday, May 17th, from 9 to 11 am in Rocky 300.
• Material covered:
  1. All posted pdf notes.
  2. Lectures notes from lecture 12 through and including lecture 22 (although any material from earlier lectures could be on exam).
• The exam will be closed-computer and closed notes.
• You are allowed to bring TWO 8.5 X 11” (standard letter size) sheets of paper with either writing or printing on both front and back.
• Practice Exam (.txt).
  Practice Exam (.rkt)
  Last versions of practice exam posted on 5/13/13 at 7:30 pm
• Solutions to practice exam:
  • Solution to practice exam (.txt)
  • Solution to practice exam (.rkt)
    Last versions of practice exam solutions posted on 5/14/13 at 10:20 am
• Exam study guide:
  • 7 questions, 65 points
  • Specifics:
    • Question about define-struct.
      
    • Question about binary trees.
      
    • Question about binary search trees.
      
    • Writing function using map and apply.
      
    • Writing function to process a string.
      
    • Evaluating expressions that contain filter, map, and apply.
      
    • Interpreting execution of big-bang program.

• T-R class: Sect 51 - Exam on Tuesday, May 7th, during regularly scheduled lecture time (3:10 to 4:30 pm). IN OLB 205.

• M-W class: Sect 52 - Exam on Monday, May 6th, during regularly scheduled lecture time (9 to 10:15 am). IN OLB 205.

• Material covered:
  1. All posted pdf notes
  2. Lectures notes from lecture 7 through and including lecture 12.
• The exam will be closed-computer and closed notes.
• You are allowed to bring one 8.5 X 11” (standard letter size) sheet of paper with either writing or printing on both front and back.
• Practice Exam (.rkt).
  Practice Exam (.txt)
  Note: Question 6 involves the define-struct statement. This will be covered on the final, not on this midterm.

Last versions of practice exam posted on 5/3/13 at 1:59 pm

• Practice Exam Solutions (.rkt).
  Practice Exam Solutions (.txt)
  

Last versions of practice exam solutions posted on 5/3/13 at 1:59pm

• Exam study guide:
  • 4 questions, 55 points
  • Specifics:
    • Evaluate functions that consume lists.
      
    • Write a predicate function that consumes a list.
      
    • Write a function that generates a random number repeatedly.
      
    • Describe output and operation of a mystery function.
      

• M-W class: Sect 52 - Exam on Friday, February 22nd, during regularly scheduled lab time (9 to 10:30 am). IN OLB 205.
  • Anyone from Section 52 who wants to start early, I’ll be in the classroom with the exams at 8 am.
• T-R class: Sect 51 - Exam on Tuesday, February 26th, during regularly scheduled lab time (4:35 to 5:50 pm). IN OLB 205.
• Material covered:
  1. All posted pdf notes (Part1 through Part4)
  2. Lectures notes from lecture 1 through and including lecture 6.
• The exam will be closed-computer and closed notes.
• You are allowed to bring one 8.5 X 11” (standard letter size) sheet of paper with either writing or printing on front and back.
• Practice Exam (.rkt).
  Practice Exam (.txt)
  Practice Exam solution (.rkt)
  Practice Exam solution (.txt)
• Exam study guide:
  • 6 questions, about 55 points
  • Specifics:
    • Short-answer definitions, evaluation of special forms, converting infix expressions to their prefix counterparts.
      
    • Using the define special form, depicting the global environment, and evaluating expressions in the interactions window.
      
    • Writing a function that makes decisions.
      
    • Short answer about identifying functions and special forms.
      
    • Rewriting and adding comments to a recursive function.
      
    • Finding errors in a recursive function.