Week 22

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Week 22

• Dan Fitton

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Week 22-25

• Individual Java project
• Its time to use your brains!!
• Read through all three options very carefully
• If none of these appeal come up with your own
• It must give the same scope as the predefined
  ones
• Come up with a detailed design
• You can only do it if is approved by your
  practical supervisors or tutor
• You must have decided on your project before you
  leave your week 22 practical!

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This week..

• Look at last weeks exam
• Exam Technique
• Questions

Next week..

• Look at exam paper from 2003

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C.Sc 111/112 Exam

• How did it go?
• Good?
• Bad?
• Ugly?
• Any questions you werent sure about?
• Now we are going to talk about some of the
  questions
• Get into groups of 2/3

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• What do you think the marking breakdown was for
  each sub-question?

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• Any problems with these questions?
• What do you think the marking breakdown was for
  each sub-question?

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• Where do you think the 8 marks would come from?
• Make a list

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• In your groups
• Define inheritance polymorphism
• Work out how you would show each of them

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• Inheritance Classes which extend other classes
  automatically inherit (include) methods and
  variables from them.
• E.g. Call a getter or setter from Person on a
  Teacher object
• Polymorphism A class can be treated as an
  instance of any of the classes in its
  inheritance hierarchy (remembering casting it
  done automatically up the inheritance hierarchy,
  but must be done manually when going down the
  inheritance hierarchy, for polymorphism to work).
• E.g. Store a Teacher object in a Person reference

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• Any problems/questions with this?

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• How do you write a static method?
• In this example why does the method need to be
  static?

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• Any problems with this?
• Remember the tutorial in week 19?

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• In groups answer both these questions, looking
  carefully at the number of marks available for
  each.

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Finally..

• Any other questions on this exam?

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EXAMS..

• You HAVE to start preparing as early as possible
• This year you have to get 45 in your major 35
  in your minor to pass
• This year doesnt count towards you degree
• Next year does
• Use this year as exam practice!
• You have to attend all your exams unless you have
  medical evidence to prove that your are unfit
• If you skive an exam you will fail automatically

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EXAMS

• Find out the time date of you exams ASAP
• Always turn up 10 minutes early
• Dont rely on the buses
• In case you dont know they are crap!!
• If you dont have a choice get a much earlier
  bus!!
• Find out where the silent study room is in the
  library
• Find out where the library is!
• Is warm, has comfy chairs makes you feel more
  studious.
• Plan your revision
• Be realistic, your attention wanes after 30 mins
• Find the exam preparation technique that works
  for you

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Exam Preparation Technique 1

• What techniques did you use when revising for
  GCSEs, A-Levels etc?
• What worked?
• What didnt?
• This is a discussion
• Im not trying to tell you how you should prepare
  for your exams!

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Exam Preparation Technique 2

• Two main techniques
• Proper revision
• Go through syllabus carefully
• Learn everything on it
• Cunning/risk assessment
• Look at previous exam papers
• Look at lecture material carefully
• Work out what questions are likely to come up
  prepare answers
• Thoughts on this?

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Exam Preparation Technique 3

• Cunning/risk assessment
• Have to be extremely careful when using this sort
  of approach
• What happens if your questions dont come up?
• Most useful for art subjects where syllabus
  stays the same every year
• Old papers will practically all be identical
• Past exam papers are all in short loan library
• Most computing ones on intranet

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Exam Preparation Technique 4

• Make sure you know what is likely to come up in
  each exam
• Past papers, lecture notes, hints from lecturer.
• What is the most important material?
• Writing out notes is usually a good method
• More you read it/write the more it will sink in
• Get lots of useful handwriting practice!

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Exam Technique

• Read the instructions very carefully
• Spend some time working out which Qs you will
  answer (if you get a choice)
• Time spent on these two could save you loads of
  time later
• Allocate time to questions based on how many
  marks they are worth stick to it
• Dont worry about skipping a question you cant
  do, leave space come back to it if you have
  time
• Chill!! Its only an exam ?