Midterm Logistics

• The midterm will be held Friday, March 3^rd during the regularly scheduled class period in EPS 103.
• You may bring one sheet of 8.5 by 11 notes. You may write on both sides as big or as small as you like.
• The midterm will be designed to test your understanding (as opposed to your memorization) of topics.

Major Topics

GUIs

• Event Handling: ActionListener, MouseListener, MouseMotionListener (and appropriate adapter interfaces)
• Components: JFrame, JPanel
• Layout Managers: FlowLayout, BorderLayout, GridLayout
• Data Entry Components: JButton, JCheckBox, JRadioButton, JComboBox, JTextField, JTextArea
• Menus: JMenuBar, JMenu, JMenuItem

Software Engineering Tools

• Javadoc: @author, @version, @param, @return, @throws
• Simple UML Diagrams
• Statement Counts
• Time Complexity
• General Testing Terminology and Ideas

Exceptions

File Input/Output

Sorting

• Selection
• Insertion
• Bubble
• Merge
• Quick

If you are having trouble visualizing the various sorts, check out the link available from the 2/27 lecture notes.

Things to Review

• Lectures
• Textbook readings
• In labs
• Programming assignments

Types of Questions

• Look at code and explain what it does
• Take existing code and either fix it or provide some additional functionality
• Write code to solve a small, well-defined problem on any of the major topics described above
• Analyze code with respect to statement counts and time complexity
• Explain through pictures how a particular sorting algorithm works
• For a given problem, select an appropriate sorting routine and justify its choice.
• Add Javadoc comments to provided code
• Draw a UML picture for provided code