CSCI 136 :: Fall 2020

Data Structures & Advanced Programming

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Midterm Exam Details

Format

The midterm exam will be administered as an assignment on GLOW. The exam will be available at the start of Lab on Thursday, October 15, and you will have the entirety of your scheduled lab meeting to complete the exam.

As we would normally do during our scheduled lab, the instructors will create a private "breakout room" for each student. If you have a question, we will be able to join you in your breakout room to help you. We will start the meeting 10 minutes early so that the full lab period can be utilized for the exam. Please arrive a few minutes early if your schedule permits.

Once we have sent all students into their breakout rooms, you will have 1.5 hours to complete the exam. Here is what that means:

Available Resources

Because we care more about problem-solving than memorization, we have decided to allow select materials to be used during your exam-taking period.

However, you may not use any search engines or public webpages, and you may not discuss any exam questions with anyone else, during or after the exam.

Although we strongly encourage you to perform calculations, draw pictures, and/or draft answers on scratch paper, we cannot grade this work. Please make sure that the answers you submit represent the work that you would like us to consider.

GLOW Particulars

As an aside, GLOW may attempt to assign a "grade" as soon as you submit your exam. If this happens, ignore that grade as it is not a reflection of how we will be evaluating your work. We are intentionally not attempting to use the autograding features in GLOW because they are misleading; we will carefully review your exams by hand and provide the same individualized feedback that we would to a physical exam.