Midterm Study Guide

1. The midterm will be given during class on Tuesday, October 16.
2. You should bring a scantron form (no. 882-E), available in the bookstore.
3. You should bring a pencil and eraser.
4. You may not use any study aids during the exam. For instance, books, notes, friends, phones, computers will not be allowed.
5. The exam will contain multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and programming questions.
6. 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
• 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