Practice Problems for the Paper-and-Pencil part of Exam 3

This page links to practice problems for the Paper-and-Pencil part of Exam 3, along with links to their answers.

1. Your instructor will give you paper copy of some or all of these practice problems.
2. See your instructor for what parts of these practice problems, if any, are part of your Admission Ticket for Exam 3.
3. For the Paper-and-Pencil part of the exam, the only external resource that you may use is a Hint Sheet that is THREE (one-sided) 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper, with whatever you want on them (printed or handwritten).
4. Read this statement on Academic Integrity; you will sign and turn it in at the exam.

The exam will assess your ability to trace code by hand, where that code includes:

• WHILE loops, in both the while True and while condition forms.
• Simple loops within loops, including sequences within sequences.
• A class definition and code that constructs multiple instances of that class, accesses and sets instance variables of the class, and calls methods of the class.
  • This will require that you include a box-and-pointer diagram.
  • This problem(s) will be about 1/3 of the points for the Paper-and-Pencil Part of Exam 3.
• Code that has container objects that are mutated, including code with function(s) whose arguments include container objects that are mutated within the function.
  • This will require that you include a box-and-pointer diagram.
  • This problem(s) will be about 1/3 of the points for the Paper-and-Pencil Part of Exam 3.

The practice problems are:

1. A Sample Exam from a previous term, with answers in a video. (There are also written answers to the Sample Exam, although both the practice problems and the answers are for a slightly different version than was handed out in class.
   • Pay special attention to problems 6 and 7.
   • This Sample Exam does NOT have a problem that requires tracing code through a class definition, but YOUR Exam 3 WILL include such a problem. See examples below.
2. Practice Problems for the Paper-and-Pencil portion with answers here.
   • Pay special attention to problems 2, 6, 7 and 23.
   • The answers follow the same pagination as the problems (approximately), so do a page, check its answers, do a page, check its answers, etc.