Time: | 7pm-9pm Tuesday September 18 |
Location: |
1 PIMENTEL (logins 1a - 3z and aa - akz) 10 EVANS (logins al - ez) 145 DWINELLE (logins fa - jz) 155 DWINELLE (logins ka - zz) |
The campus map shows locations of Pimentel Hall, Evans Hall, and Dwinelle Hall.
The exam is closed note, except for:
The exam will cover all course topics through Chapter 2.3.3 of the lecture notes, except for topics marked as Practical Guidance or Bonus Material. Those topics include:
Particular emphasis will be given to user-defined functions, assignment, iteration, and higher-order functions.
You should be prepared to answer questions that relate closely to the projects and homework assignments (not including "extra for experts" problems). You should also know how to draw an environment diagram by hand.
The previous exam most similar in topics covered to your upcoming midterm is the Fall 2011 61A Midterm 1 exam. Links to all publicly available previous exams are listed below, for your convenience.
The main review session, which will cover the Midterm 1 Study Guide, will be held 2pm-4pm on Saturday 9/15 in 1 Pimentel. We suggest that you work through these practice problems before the session, so that you have a chance to solve them on your own.
Berkeley HKN will also hold a review session 12pm-3pm on Sunday 9/16 in 306 Soda. They provide this review session on a volunteer basis; please thank them for their service.
Office hours held Thursday through Monday (9/13 - 9/17) will have the topic-specific themes listed below. Bring your questions about those topics. We will have time in office hours for general questions as well.
Thursday 9/13 @ 2:30pm | Hamilton | Call expressions |
Thursday 9/13 @ 3pm | Albert | Expression trees |
Thursday 9/13 @ 5:30pm | Joy | User-Defined functions; Applying user-defined functions; Environments |
Thursday 9/13 @ 6pm | Allen | Assignment; Local assignment |
Thursday 9/13 @ 7pm | Steven | Conditional Statements |
Friday 9/14 @ 9:30am | Andrew | Boolean contexts and operators |
Friday 9/14 @ 11am | Shu | Iteration and assignment |
Friday 9/14 @ 12pm | Stephen | Passing functions as arguments |
Friday 9/14 @ 1pm | Varun | Functions as return values |
Monday 9/17 @ 10am | Keegan | Lambda expressions |
Monday 9/17 @ 1pm | Stephen | Iterative improvement; Newton's Method |
Monday 9/17 @ 1pm | Shu | Data abstraction |
Monday 9/17 @ 3pm | Allen | Functional pairs; dispatch functions |
Monday 9/17 @ 3pm | Varun | Lambda Expressions, Environments |
Monday 9/17 @ 3:30pm | John | Recursive lists |
Monday 9/17 @ 4:30pm | Julia | The Sequence Abstraction |
A make-up exam will be held 7:30pm-9:30pm in 310 Soda. You can only take this exam if you have filled out this conflict form by Friday 9/14. You will receive email before (or on) Saturday 9/15 confirming that you can take the make-up exam.