Exam Information

The exam will be on Wednesday, July 29 in lecture. It will be purely a conceptual exam; you will not be writing a program. You will not be able to refer to any books, notes, programs, or other resources during the exam.

Material to Review

Some review material has been available throughout the semester:

• Quick quizzes (available on CourseWeb)
• Review questions at the start of each lecture
• Quiz 2

In addition, here is a set of sample questions: final-review.pdf (doc)

Here are the list of programming exercises even though there won't be programming on the exam: final-review-programming.html

Note that there will not be answers posted for the questions above. If you would like to know whether your answers are correct, you may check the lecture notes or the textbook, test your answers in Python, or send your answers to the instructor and he will provide feedback on your answers.

There will be a review session the class before the exam. Please complete the Final Review Survey on CourseWeb (in the Surveys section). Responses received by Saturday night on July 25 will be considered when preparing the review session.

The final exam covers the following topics:

• Everything from the midterm
• Exception Handling
  • Why use exception handling
  • try-except blocks
  • Accessing values from an exception
• Functions
  • Why use functions
  • Writing functions
  • Arguments and Parameters
  • Variable scope
  • Returning values from a function
  • Functional decomposition
  • Raising exceptions and exception propagation
  • TypeError and ValueError
  • Documenting functions
• modules
• Classes
  • Why write classes
  • Classes vs. objects
  • Class terminology
  • Writing classes
  • self
  • __init__ and other Special Methods (__str__, __eq__)
  • Private vs. public fields and set/get methods
  • Properties
  • Data aggregation
• Dicts and sets
  • Creating dictionaries/sets
  • Accessing, adding, removing values
  • Common operations
  • Special properties of keys (in a dictionary) or values (in a set)
• Advanced function topics
  • default values for parameters
  • keyword parameters
  • var-positional arguments
  • var-keyword arguments
  • lambda functions
  • gobal variables