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           Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
                     CSC181: Introduction to Computer Programming, Fall 2000

First Term Test Information
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Essentials
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Date: Wednesday, October 18 (as per the course information sheet) 
Time: 4:30-5:45 p.m.
Location: Nursing Building, Room 107 (map)

There are no aids allowed. You must bring your student card.

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Topics you are responsible for
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- Basic datatypes.
- Expressions.
- Operators: arithmetic, relational and logical.
- Selection using if, switch.
- Iteration using for, while, do-while.
- The assert function.
- The const modifier.
- Arrays.
- Table lookup.
- Functions.
- Scopes.
- The extern and static modifiers.
- Pointers.
- Structures and unions.
- Dynamic storage allocation (using malloc and free).
- Memory management issues (e.g. dangling pointers and memory leaks).

Basically, everything covered in the first five weeks of lecture.

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Structure of the midterm
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Shorter questions (30-40%)

A combination of:

- True/false
- Multiple choice
- Fill in the blanks
- "Define and explain significance of..."

Longer questions (60-70%)

Tentative breakdown:

- Analyzing code (1/3)
- Programming code (2/3)