Department of Computer Science

Examination one Topics

• 1. Theory
  • information representation
    • integer (twos complement binary)
      
    • ascii character set.
    • floating point conversions to decimal.
  • definition and vocabulary
    • bits
    • bytes
    • words
    • doublewords
    • halfwords
    • binary
    • editor
    • cpu
    • compile
    • object code
    • source code
    • executable
    • library
    • variable
    • assignment
    • main memory
    • auxiliary memory
    • syntax error
    • semantic error
• 2. C Programming
  • decisions
  • if else
  • loops
  • while
  • do
  • for
  • arithmetic operators + - * / % (integer arithmetic)
  • arithmetic operations + - * / (float operations)
  • relational operators < <= > >= != ==
  • logical operators && || !
  • assignment operator =
  • data definition
  • int
    
  • comments /* */
• 3. vi
  • command mode
  • input mode
• 4. unix
  man, passwd, cat, ls, rm, mv, cp, pwd, cd, mkdir, rmdir, elm, pine, vi.
• 5. problem solving -- algorithms
  Sequence
  Selection
  Iteration

  What kind of questions will I ask?
  
  
  1. Basic stuff--tf, multiple guess, fill in blank, define
  2. programming examples
  I write program, you explain
  you write program
  3. stuff you have seen before
  4. stuff you haven't seen before but is very similar to stuff
  you have seen before.
  5. abstractions. systhesis. stuff you have never seen before.

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