Final coverage

[Ryan Haid]

Hey there,

Could we get an idea of some of the topics/concepts that will be
covered on the final? For example, will induction/GUIs be included
this time around?

Thanks.

[Ken Birman]

Ryan, the exam is cummulative so those topics definitely could be on
the exam. As a practical matter, though, we didn't spend a lot of
time on induction and those of you who take cs3110 or cs2800 will be
doing quite a bit of induction in the spring. So this has us a bit
more biased towards topics involving writing code and a bit less
focused on code analysis. I hope that helps.

As for GUIs, those don't really lend themselves easily to test
questions so while you do need to understand what we covered, as a
practical matter, I'm not sure how I would ask good questions about
them. We did make GUIs a big part of A3, A4 and A5 and homework is
45% of your grade. So in my view, GUIs matter in cs2110 even though
GUIs don't figure in a major way on p1, p2 or (as you'll see) the
final.