Exam 1 Topics

The exam will consist of different types of questions, including multiple-choice, short-answer (1-2 sentences), and problem-solving (e.g., read, analyze or write a function).

It will cover the topics covered in lectures, readings, homeworks, and projects since the beginning of the course through 10/21, including the following:

• Representing data with bits (binary digits)
• Moore's Law
• App Inventor: Designer, Blocks Editor
• App Inventor concepts: Components, properties, blocks, built-in functions, etc.
• Data abstraction, positional number systems (binary, decimal, hexadecimal)
• Converting from binary to decimal to hex and vice versa
• Using numbers to represent and mix colors
• Algorithms: reading and writing algorithms using sequence, selection, repetition statements
• Procedural abstraction: reading and writing procedures and functions with arguments
• Randomness - Pseudorandom number generators
• Simulating random events -- e.g., a coin flip or die roll
• Computer architecture: events, memory and data, event-driven programming, different types of data (properties, globals, arguments)
• Software engineering: debugging code