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Henrik Bærbak Christensen Exam guide Draft from 2013 Feedback is very welcome Find it on weekplan 7 Henrik Bærbak Christensen

Henrik Bærbak Christensen When 11-20 Januar Censors: Peter, Elmer, and Aino Henrik Bærbak Christensen

Henrik Bærbak Christensen Format Use the provided exam question set to rehearse the exam format Pick an exercise Spend 15 minutes Finding solution techniques Partially solving it Spend 12 minutes Discussing it with your fellow students Henrik Bærbak Christensen

Henrik Bærbak Christensen Good hints Oral exams require oral presentation This can be learned! How? By rehearsing oral presentation! And you will face it many many times over the next 40 years... Henrik Bærbak Christensen

Henrik Bærbak Christensen Nerveous? Some students are not nerveous at exams. How do you do that??? Some are... Learn to use your nervousness, instead of trying to avoid it... Perhaps it is not a problem, it is a condition of life… Henrik Bærbak Christensen

Henrik Bærbak Christensen Read the exercise Panic! I must read the exercise in 5 seconds so I have more time to solve it! Odds are - you solve the wrong exercise or miss the important point  And – the exam is a discussion – I do not expect you to solve all complex details in only 15 minutes... Henrik Bærbak Christensen

Paths to failure  A main cause for not passing the dSoftArk exam is... Failing in IntProg and dProg2 core stuff i.e. Not being able to express your designs in Java... Is this fair? Yes. You cannot pass a course in advanced programming if you cannot program at all... Henrik Bærbak Christensen

The whiteboard cannot do that! The Eclipse trap Eclipse / IntelliJ are marvelous tools that speed up programming by context-sensitive typing The whiteboard cannot do that! Try to code and compile a Java program in Notepad/Gedit! Henrik Bærbak Christensen

Henrik Bærbak Christensen How to rehearse... Work in teams Test-drive oral presentations on the example set Solve non-mandatory weekplan exercises And use them as exam questions Code simple exercises – mastery through exercise I have TDD’ed the PayStation 20+ times Do the safe-tutorial on you own, PayStation on your own Introduce a Strategy in dProg2 code or whatever... Review and discuss your team mates’ efforts Henrik Bærbak Christensen

It has been a pleasure flying with you dSoftArk 2016 signing off… It has been a pleasure flying with you Henrik Bærbak Christensen