EXAM #2 INFORMATION

• 3 hours, during our scheduled finals period, 3-6PM, Thursday 5/7, Main 205
• No makeups will be considered without an official University excuse
• The exam will consist of two parts:
• Written part
• 50 minutes
• Closed book, closed notes
• You are allowed a two-sided 8 1/2 x 11 note sheet, hand-written
• No electronic devices are allowed during the written portion.
• Programming part
• 100 minutes
• Open web, open notes
• This will be like a mini-programming assignment
• You may use code from your past programming assignments or from the course web site
• You will submit your final program(s) into the Moodle Exam #2 dropbox
• Your program will be graded on correctness, clarity (including comments), design, and efficiency
• You will lose a substantial number of points if your program(s) do no compile or if they crash on typical inputs
• You can use a lab machine or your own laptop
• No communication with any non-staff members is allowed. This includes all forms of real-world and electronic communication (talking, sign language, ESP, email, twitter, IRC, facebook, SMS, posting questions on forums, smoke signals, etc).

• Lectures 0-17
• Head First Java, Ch 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, p.670
• Programming assignments 0-9

• Topics covered in CSCI 135 and CSCI 136 Exam 0 and 1, but with an emphasis on the topics below:
• Differences between command line and GUI applications
• JFrame, what it is, how to create one
• JFrame, common operations: adding things, setting size, visibility, title
• Layout managers: BorderLayout, FlowLayout, BoxLayout
• Common widgets: JButton, JLabel, JTextField, JTextArea
• GUI event handling: how to create a listener and register with widget
• Listeners that handle multiple widgets by checking event source
• Listeners implemented via an inner-class
• Using JPanel to group widgets
• Using JPanel and its paintComponent() method to draw things
• Use of repaint() method to force update of GUI elements
• Basic 2D graphics: drawing lines, boxes, circles, images, text, setting colors
• Mouse and keyboard listeners
• Regular expressions, basic operations: () | * .
• Regular expressions, advanced operations: +, [], {}, ^
• Regular expressions, Java String methods: matches(), replaceAll(), replaceFirst(), split()
• Devise a regular expression for a given English description and vice-versa
• Given a regular expression, find strings that match and do not match
• Differences/advantages/disadvantages between compiling a program to native code, compiling to byte-code, or interpreting at runtime
• Java generics: defining a class that can hold any reference type

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