Prelim 1

Exam Info

Date: Tuesday, March 30
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Barton Hall 100, sections A, C, E
- Seating assignments will be announced on CMS
- Please use the west entrance; see map
Topics
Exam, Solutions
Feedback (on Canvas)

Please complete the Prelim 1 logistics survey by Mar 23 so that we can accommodate exam conflicts, online exams, and distant time zones.

All students who are located in Ithaca (and who are not quarantined) must take the exam in person, even if you are enrolled in online sections. Those not in Ithaca must find a location with reliable Internet and a webcam where you can take a remotely proctored exam either during the normal exam time or during an alternative window for students in distant time zones. Additional details will be announced after the survey.

How to review?

(Re-)Write the solutions to the example problems done in lecture, unaided. Just reading over the code and notes is not enough.
Re-do the discussion exercise problems that you didn't do 100% on your own, now un-aided. Just reading over the code is not enough.
Do the review questions, referring to your lecture notes, exercises, projects, and the book as necessary
Do one of the old exams as a reivew, referring to notes, etc., as necessary
Do one of the old exams like an exam—unaided. I.e., use an old exam as a diagnostic tool to figure out on which topics you should go back to do more reivew.

Throughout this review process, talk to course staff during office/consulting hour to seek help and explanation as necessary in order to master the topics.

Optional Review Session

Date: Saturday, March 27
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Location: Zoom (see Canvas)
Slides from review session (recording available on Canvas)

Review materials

Note on syntax: rand, rand(), and rand(1) all do the same thing: return a random value in the range of 0 to 1, excluding 0 and excluding 1.