1. Midterm - 1 Instructions

2. Midterm 1
When: Week 5 - Friday, June 7 9:30 am – 10:20 am Where: SSCB 9201 Duration: 45 minutes (+ 5 minutes to organize ourselves)

3. What to study
Cover: Everything is subject to our Midterm i.e., all material from Lecture 1 to (and including) Lecture 11 on Friday, May 31 (cut off)
This include:
Partial lecture notes + our own lecture notes
Weekly Exercises 1 to 4
All practice exams
All readings, programs, etc… posted on our course web site and associated with Lecture 1 to Lecture 11 inclusively
Good Programming Style (GPS) on our course web site

4. Midterm Format
This midterm 1 will be paper-based! No laptop. No Repl.it!
The Theory and Understanding portion of the midterm will be multiple-choice questions
The Coding portion of the midterm will be composed of questions requiring written answers such as write, modify and/or test and debug a Python code fragment or a program

5. How to study
Practise developing Python programs (i.e., writing Python code)
Make sure we have read and understood readings, course lecture notes and programs, etc… posted on our course web site

6. When arriving in classroom
Take pens, pencils and eraser out of our bag
Place everything (bags, books, coats, calculators, computer, cell phones, etc.) at front of classroom
Find a seat forming a column as illustrated on next slide

7. Exam Seating Arrangement
Each intersection represents a seat in the classroom
Represents a student seated at a seat
Represents a vacant seat
Front of classroom
EVERYTHING HERE (included cell phones and laptops)! Except pens, pencils, eraser

8. While distributing the Midterm
Once we have received our midterm, let’s leave the midterm face up on our table
Please, DO NOT touch the midterm!
i.e., DO NOT leaf through the midterm
i.e., DO NOT write our name on the midterm
Why? Because it is unfair to all other students who have not yet received a midterm
Take this time to read the instructions on the front page of the midterm

9. While distributing the Midterm
When all students have received a midterm, we will be instructed as follows
We may start our midterm now!

10. During the midterm If we have a question, we raise our hand
The instructor is the only person answering questions during the midterm

11. At the end of midterm When we are told to Please, stop writing!
please, do stop writing and hand in our midterm as instructed
Why?
Because, if we continue writing, it is unfair to all other students who have stopped writing

12. Any Questions?