CSE152, Spring 2011, Caveats About Sample Final Exams

While the sample final exams give a good sense of the style of question you are likely to encounter, they are substantially different from our final exam as follows:

• The sample exams had a time limit of 1 hour, 50 minutes whereas we have 3 hours. So our exam will be longer.
• Our course covered several topics since the midterm that the courses for most/all of the sample exams did not. These include continuation-passing style, type-and-effect systems, type-inference, laziness in Haskell, and the IO monad in Haskell.

Some other general comments on the final:

• As with the midterm, the reference sheets included in the exam will be posted ahead of time and you may bring one side of one additional sheet of paper with whatever you want written on it.
• The intention is to focus on material since the midterm, but naturally the concepts in the course build on each other.
• Topics covered on homework are not necessarily a good indication of what topics will be on the exam. If anything there is probably some negative correlation as the exam tries to cover topics that the homework under-emphasized.
• Not every topic will be covered.