Midterm Study Guide

1. The midterm will be given during class on Thursday, October 20.
2. You should bring a pencil and eraser.
3. You may not use any study aids during the exam. For instance, books, notes, friends, phones, computers will not be allowed.
4. The exam will contain multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and programming questions.
5. You may be asked questions regarding:
• material presented during lecture and lab - be sure to review notes linked from the course schedule
• reading assignments
• the course project including topics such as (but not limited to) process, organization, domain, technology
• the functionality of Android phones (e.g. touch, magnetometer, accelerometer, internet, GPS, wifi, internet)
• capabilities and limitations of Scratch
• capabilities and limitations of App Inventor
• App Inventor programming fundamentals
• given an App Inventor program, be able to tell what it does
• given a list of App Inventer components and blocks (e.g. control blocks), be able to tell what components and blocks you would use to accomplish a task
• Java programming fundamentals
• answer questions about programming and Java basics (e.g. what is a data type?, what is a parameter?, what is the difference between if and while?)
• be able to write short programs that use if/else, primitive data types, built-in operators (+,-,*,/,%,++,==,!=,&&,||), functions/methods (e.g. write programs on the level of PasswordValidator and TranscriptPrinter)
• program testing fundamentals
• be able to write JUnit tests (e.g. use assertEquals and assertTrue as in this example)
6. Vocabulary that would be good to know:
• computer
• processor
• program
• programmer
• procedure
• argument
• parameter
• return value
• operator
• operand
• variable
• local
• global
• scope
• data
• list
• condition
• control structure
• loop
• selection
• event
• event handler
• Activity (App Inventor)
• requirements
• design
• deployment
• test
• code