CS8, Summer 2009, UCSB
Final Exam (E03) information
Actual Exam
The Final Exam covered:
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Lab assignments lab00 through lab07, with emphasis on lab06, lab07
- lab08 is not "officially" covered, but does review material from previous lectures, textbook readings, and homework assignments that are covered, so it is also worth reviewing.
- Homework assigments H00 through H10, with emphasis on H07 and H10
- All lectures from the course, with empahsis on recent lectures.
- Some topics of particular interest: logical operators, relational operators, DeMorgan's law (covered in lecture on Tuesday 09/08/2009).
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Chapters 1-5 from the textbook, with emphasis on 3,4,5
- This is the same textbook coverage as Midterm 2, however certain topics that did not appear on Midterm 2, even though they were nominally "covered", may appear on the final (see detailed list below for some examples
Sample topics from Chapters 3,4,5 that were not covered on the midterm exam,
but might appear on the final exam
- File operations (references: Textbook 5.2, Lecture Notes, esp 08/25, and H07)
- Opening a file, reading lines from a file, closing the file
- Opening a file for input or output, i.e. open('student.txt','r') vs. open('student.txt','w')
- The idea of a buffer, and why we sometimes need to "flush" the buffer.
- How to use strip() (covered in lecture) and split() (textbook p. 127)
- The extra credit lab lab08 also reviews these concepts
( no new material is included, just additional practice with these ideas)
- Finding a minimum or maximum (references: Textbook 4.4, lab07)
- Index vs. value—finding the index of the maximum element, vs. finding the value of the maximum element. (see lab07)
- The idea of the run-time stack, and stack frames (reference: H10, Lecture of 09/08/2009)
- Various operations on lists (see practice questions below, as well as lab06, lab07, lab08).
Practice Materials:
