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 some App Inventor code).

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

• Blown to Bits, Chapter 1, including:
  • Representing data with bits (binary digits)
  • Moore's Law, exponential growth
  • Bits, bytes,
• App Inventor Topics, including:
  • Designer, Blocks Editor, emulator
  • Components, properties,
  • Event handlers, global variables, blocks, built-in functions.
  • Reading and interpreting App Inventor code blocks
• CS Principles, including:
  • Data abstraction, positional number systems (binary, decimal, hexadecimal)
  • Converting from binary to decimal to hex and vice versa
  • Parity error checking
  • Using numbers to represent and mix colors
  • Algorithms: reading and writing algorithms using sequence, selection, repetition statements
  • Procedural abstraction: reading and writing procedures
  • Randomness - Pseudorandom number generators
  • Simulating random events -- e.g., a coin flip or die roll
  • Reading and writing pseudocode
• Miscellaneous
  • Cloud computing
  • Privacy implications