cs2220: Engineering Software » Exams http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:27:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Final Exam Handout http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=429 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=429#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:47:51 +0000 David Evans http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=429 Continue reading →]]> The final exam handout is here: [PDF].

Note: I have corrected the sentence about resources to make it clear that you are not expected to use notes during the exam. I should read: During the exam, you should not expect to use any resources, in particular, you may not use any notes.. Sorry for any confusion this caused!

]]> http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?feed=rss2&p=429 0 Classes 24 and 25, Exam 2 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=415 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=415#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:04:03 +0000 David Evans http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=415 Here are the slides from Classes 24 and 25:

  • Class 24: Garbage Collection [PPTX] [PDF]
  • Class 25: Software Disasters! [PPTX] [PDF]

The Exam 2 template is here: exam2.docx.

]]> http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?feed=rss2&p=415 0 Exam 2 Correction http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=409 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=409#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:32:02 +0000 David Evans http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=409 There’s a typo in Question 3a. It should read, “Your solution should not introduce any deadlocks in the code.” (instead of “Your solution to not introduce any deadlocks in the code.”). Sorry for the confusion.

]]> http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?feed=rss2&p=409 0 Exam 2 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=403 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=403#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:14:28 +0000 David Evans http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=403 Continue reading →]]> Exam 2 will be handed out Thursday, 18 November and due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, 23 November. It will cover all material in the class through Class 23, but focus primarily on content from Problem Sets 4 and 5.

Topics you should expect to see on the exam include:

  • Subtyping, Inheritance, Dynamic Dispatch
  • Behavioral Subtyping rules, substitution principle
  • Concurrency abstraction
  • Race conditions, deadlocks
  • Java Security, bytecode verification, code safety

There may also be questions integrating important ideas from earlier in the class such as specification, data abstraction, validation, and software design.

If there are topics you would like me to review in class Tuesday, send them to me by Monday.

]]> http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?feed=rss2&p=403 0 Exam 1 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=308 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=308#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:07:50 +0000 David Evans http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=308 Exam 1 is due at the beginning of class Tuesday: [PDF] [Word Template]

]]> http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?feed=rss2&p=308 3 Preparing for Exam 1 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=293 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=293#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:45:23 +0000 David Evans http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cs2220/?p=293 Continue reading →]]> Exam 1 will be handed out at the end of class on Thursday, 23 September, and due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, 28 September.

The material on Exam 1 will be based on Problem Sets 1-3, Classes 1-8 (through last Thursday’s class), and the assigned reading (Chapter 1-5, 9 and 10).

Here is a practice exam from a previous course: cs205 Exam 1 [Exam Comments]. You are strongly encouraged to try the exam yourself before reading the exam comments.

In Tuesday’s class, we will practice on implementing data abstractions, including Abstraction Functions and Rep Invariants.

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