Exam Details

Our first and only midterm exam will occur October 24, 2019, at 11a in DMP301.

The exam is worth 15% of your final score in the course.

Exam Topics and Format

The exam will consist of 6 to 8 problems, each of which will require you to apply some skill or strategy you have learned in the course. We will expect you to be able to produce code similar to those found in the POTD (and in some cases perhaps a bit more complex), and to be able to read and debug more substantial Python examples. Throughout all, the emphasis will be on problem-solving, and not on Python syntax.

A copy of the dataframes cheat-sheet will be provided. No other resources will be allowed (or needed).

Here are the topics…

Classes:

• Problem decomposition and design
• member variables - default values
• member functions - defining/using

Color representation (rgb)

Web Scraping:

• fill in blank
• data assembly

Data Frames:

• filtering
• projecting columns
• functions

Plotting:

• we specify a plot, you sketch it

Voronoi Diagrams:

• definition
• application

BFS:

• execution
• debug implementation
• application

Theory:

• problem size
• computational work

Data Structures: List, Dictionary, Queue, Deque

All lectures, labs, POTD, and projects through Friday, October 18, contain testable information.