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CS 1110: Introduction to Computing Using Java

Spring 2012

Quizzes

Every once in a while, we will have a quiz in lecture. We will tell you what will be on the quiz. These are not intended to be overly difficult or tricky. In fact, we expect everyone to get 100 on every quiz.

Reason for Quizzes

A course like CS 1110 uses a lot of terminology and introduces many new concepts. Typically, the terminology and concepts are used from the day they are introduced onward. If you do not learn them soon after they are introduced, you cannot understand later lectures and material. So, each quiz alerts you to what is important for you to learn at that time (and forces you, hopefully, to learn it). We hope that you don't only superficially learn it but grok it. (If you don't know what grok means, bring up ProgramLive (the CD), open the glossary, and look at the entry for grok.

Quizzes for this Semester

To give you some fair warning, here are the quizzes that we have currently planned. However, we reserve the right to add new quizzes later in the course. We promise to give you warning at least a week ahead of time.

Quiz 0: CMS Check

Submit to CMS by Monday, January 30th.

The purpose of this quiz to ensure that you know about the exams in the course, iclickers, and academic integrity. You should be able to do it in a few minutes.

Quiz 1: Types

Held in class on Tuesday, January 31st.

For this quiz, you need to know (1) the definition of "type" (see page 17 of text) and (2) how to execute the assignment statement (p. 28, box on top of page).

Quiz 2: Constructors

Held in class on Tuesday, February 7th.

For this quiz, you need to know the purpose of a constructor (see page 111 of text). You also need to know how to evaluate a new expression (see box on top of page 116).