Class 55: Review for Final

Held: Wednesday, 6 December 2006

Summary: Today we discuss a variety of issues pertaining to grading and the final examination.

Related Pages:

• EBoard.

Notes:

• Quiz today!
• Thursday extra tomorrow at noon.
• Final Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. (other times permissable).

Overview:

• Quiz.
• Grading.
• The Final.
• Course Topics.

Quiz

• Motivation: We're changing CSC151 over the next few years (particulars on Friday). We'd like to have a sense as to the effects on some key issues.
• No penalty for doing badly.
• Rewards for doing well:
  • Excellent answers get a check plus on lowest homework.
  • The best answer on problems 1 and 2 each get a $10 bookstore card

Grading

• You should all have received a list of the grades I've recorded for the semester.
• You can use grading.scm to explore your potential grade.
• I expect to distribute the list of EC this afternoon.

Final Examination

• In-class.
• Four problems:
  • Write a simple object (comparable to those in reading and lab; not nearly as complicated as students).
  • Something having to do with map.
  • Something having to do with folding.
  • Code reading.
• Policies follow

1. This is a closed book examination. You may not rely on notebooks, papers, textbooks, computers, colleagues, or anything similar. You may, however, refer to one 8.5 x 11 inch, double sided, hand-written, set of notes that you brought to this exam.

2. This is also a paper examination. Answer all problems in pen or pencil on the examination sheets.

3. There are four problems on this examination.

Four correct or mostly-correct solutions will earn you an A. Three correct or mostly-correct solutions will earn you a B. Two correct or mostly-correct solutions will earn you a C. One correct or mostly-correct solution will earn you a D. Zero correct or mostly-correct solutions will earn you an F. Failure to attempt the exam will earn you a 0.

Partially-correct solutions may or may not earn you a higher grade, at the discretion of the grader.

4. Many of the problems ask you to write Scheme code. Although you need not write correct working Scheme code, your code should be of sufficient quality that I can be confident that you would be able to make it work correctly with minimal effort when given access to DrScheme.

The Subject Matter of the Course

• I'll ask you to fill out what you thought the subject matter was.
• I'll then reflect on my own perspective.
• You learned a lot and I'm proud of you.