1. Exam
A few notes and hints…

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Exam guide
Draft from 2013
Feedback is very welcome
Find it on weekplan 7
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When
11-20 Januar
Censors: Peter, Elmer, and Aino
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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
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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...
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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…
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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...
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8. 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...
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9. 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!
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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
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11. It has been a pleasure flying with you
dSoftArk 2016 signing off…
It has been a pleasure flying with you
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