CSCI 102 - Fall 2026 Fundamentals of Computation

MT1 Info

Overview and Proces

MUST BE TAKEN IN PERSON / NO REMOTE EXAMS

• Time/Date: Wed, Oct. 7 in class
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Location based: GFS 106 (1 p.m.) / HAR 101 (2 p.m.) (regular classroom)
  • OSAS Accommodations: Schedule your exam at the testing center for the same day (preferably between 12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
• Format: The test will be taken on paper. You should use a pencil so you can erase, but MUST write DARKLY as we will scan your exams afterwards for grading purposes. The majority of questions will be multiple choice based on code analysis/tracing and conceptual material as well as “fill-in-the-blank” to complete code.
• Policies:
  • Due to the impossibility of getting to each student’s seat, we CANNOT answer questions during the exam. If you believe a question is missing information needed to answer it OR that there is a typo, neatly write your assumption/note in the margin next to the question and answer it to the best of your ability. We’ll process the issue during the regrade period after exams are returned. And if we find a typo on our end that would have reasonably led to a wrong answer or inability to answer the question, we will simply throw out that question from the exam after the fact.
  • We will provide scratch paper for you to write on, BUT NO WORK ON SCRATCH PAPER WILL BE GRADED. You must fill in the appropriate boxes on the actual exam. Scratch paper will be collected and shredded after the exam.
  • The exam is Closed book, Closed notes, no phones or electronic device usage). Any violation of these rules will result in a report to the Office of Academic Integrity with a proposed sanction of F in the class.
  • Please use the restroom ahead of time so as to avoid interrupting other students. If needed, you must request to use the restroom or leave the classroom for any reason and only 1 person will be allowed to leave at a time.
  • You may not have headphones or earbuds in.
  • You MAY NOT leave early from the exam. If you finish early, sit quietly, check your work, or draw a CREATIVE picture on the back of the exam.

Topics

Lec 1

• Data Types

Lec 2

• Algorithms
• Constants

Lec 3-4

• Expressions (understand various operations and operators such as % and /)
• Output with cout
• Input with cin
• Variables and assignment
• Statements
• Libraries (eg. Math function calls)
• I/O manipulators: setprecision, and fixed

Lec 5

• Division and Modulo operators
• Assignment operations (shift and rotations)

Lec 6-7

• Conditional statements
• Comparison operators
• if, if..else, and if..else if...else statements
• Logical operators (&&, ||, and !)

Lec 8-10

• while loops
• for loops
• Tracing of loops
• Writing basic while and for loops.

Style

The exam will involve multiple choice, true/false, and tracing questions (fill in the blank, etc.) and some short coding questions.

Ways to Prepare

1. Go through the review problems at the end of each relevant chapter in the textbook (If you bought the digital materials option, you can find the textbook on Brightspace..Course tools..My Materials, it will take you to Follett website where you’ll then find “Kortext” and can access the digital textbook.).
2. Study the slides
3. Redo the in-class exercises on EdStem by clicking the “start over” button.
4. Do any lab exercises you have NOT finished on Codio.
5. Redo your HW/Lab exercises.
6. Go through these practice problems that our wonderful former course staff helped to create.
7. A sample exam Sample Exam 1 will be posted on Gradescope 1 week before the exam and will be accessbile via Brightspace..Content..Exam-Prep. Use this only once you have studied and want to see how well you are prepared. This exam mimics the format and style of the actual exam.
8. Fall 2024 Exam and Solutions
   • For Fall 2026, you may need to write a short program or two from scratch.