CSC 242

Winter 2024

Craig Miller

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Weekly Notes

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10

Labs

• Lab 1
• Lab 2
• Lab 3
• Lab 5
• Lab 6
• Lab 7
• Lab 8
• Lab 9

Assignments

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Assignment 4
• Assignment 5
• Assignment 6
• Assignment 7
• Assignment 8

Final Exam

• Thursday March 21 (2.25 hours)
  • Morning class (section 501): Thursday March 21 from 8:30 AM to 10:45 AM.
  • Afternoon class (section 506): Thursday March 21 from 11:30 AM to 1:45 PM.
• You must complete exam without help from anyone!
• You must not share any of the exam with anyone!
• For Part 2 (code writing), you may use the IDLE environment to run and test your code. Internet access not available (except for D2L). You may refer to code examples from Part 1.
• Coverage includes all work through week 10
• Total of 70 points (35% of the class grade)
  • Multiple choice (part 1 no computer)
    • Covers concepts and definitions
    • Choose correct example or snippet of code
  • Code tracing and prediction (part 1 no computer)
    • Trace code that uses class definitions, inheritance
    • Trace simple recursive calls
    • Might involve explaining GUI code
  • Short code writing (part 1 no computer)
  • Code writing (part 2, uses computer)
    • Approximately 4 problems
    • Will involve some class development
    • Likely involve a simple recursive solution
    • Likely involve application of a regular expression

  Review of Major Concepts

  The exam covers chapters 7 through 12. Text content that was not addressed in class will not be emphasized on the exam.

  General concepts and competencies

  • Using classes, creating objects and calling instance methods
  • Defining classes, contructors, and methods
  • Common specially-named methods: __init__, __str__, __eq__
  • Using lists, dictionaries and objects to represent composite (structured) data
  • Composition: defining a class (e.g. MovieList) composed of instance variables that consist of objects (Movie objects)
  • GUI objects: packing GUI widgets inside frames
  • GUI events: creating an event handler
  • Sorting and searching: efficiency, using key function for Python sort
  • Web development: html, css, JS (know ideas but not code)
  • Using regular expressions
  • Interfacing with a database

  General knowlege of the topics in these areas is expected. The exam will typically address these topics with multiple choice.

  Study Strategies

  • Review midterm exam
  • Review assignments and your summary statements
  • Develop a Widget class and a class that is composed of a list/dictionary of widgets.
  • Write a demo program for your classes; trace and predict demo programs written by others