CS 142 Course Quiz

1. Students who have never programmed before can get an A in this class
    A) True
    B) False

2. Where can I check my scores?
    A) Blackboard
    B) Ask the Head TA
    C) Ask any TA
    D) The class website's administration menu

3. Eclipse is the recommended and only supported IDE for this class. 
    A) True
    B) False

4. The last day to turn in assignments is:
    A) The last day of classes for the given semester/term
    B) The last reading day
    C) The day they are due (no late days)
    D) The last day of finals

5. Lab assignments can be submitted via email or turned in the next day for full credit
   as long as the student can show via a timestamp that their work was completed on time.
    A) True
    B) False

6. How will turning in a lab early or late affect your score?
    A) Labs can only be turned in on their due date
    B) For each individual lab each early day adds one point and each late day subtracts 5 
         points from your lab score.
    C) At the end of the semester, all your early and late days are added together.  If you
         have more early days than late days, each extra early day adds 1 point to your total
         score in the class.  Each extra late day subtracts 5 points from your score.

7. Lab assignments make up what percentage of your final grade?
    A) 20%
    B) 50%
    C) 80%

8. The appropriate way to ask a TA for help is:
    A) Raise your hand
    B) Request help via the course website
    C) Shout
    D) Go to the TA workstation.

9. In general, how will the TAs assist students?
    A) They will take over your keyboard, fix all your bugs, and then leave.
    B) They will help you understand where your problems are and how to fix them with
         out writing any code for you.
    C) They will refer you to a Wikipedia page that will answer all of your questions.

10. Students can check out course text books from the TAs in room number:
    A) 1121
    B) 1170
    C) 1119

11. Where are help sessions taught? And at what time?
    A) 1170 TMCB @ 10-11am, MWF
    B) 1119 TMCB @ 10-11am, 1-2pm, 4-5pm M-F
    C) 1121 TMCB @ the times highlighted in black on the TA schedule
    D) 1066 TMCB @ the times highlighted in blue on the TA schedule

12. Help sessions are:
    A) Required    
    B) Optional, but prerequisite to individual TA Help. 
    C) A waste of time. 

13. If you cannot _________  you may want to take this course a different semester.
    A) attend General Conference
    B) attend a help session for each lab
    C) attend the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival 

14.  How early should students start working on lab assignments?
    A) Each lab will take 1-2 hours to complete so don’t start too early.
    B) Just attend a help session and you will be done!
    C) The assignments become more difficult after the first couple of labs.  Each student is
         different, but don’t expect to finish each lab in one day.  

15. TAs will first help students _____________________
    A) who are passing off the current lab, then those working on the current lab
    B) in the order in which students put themselves on the help list
    C) in whatever order the TAs deem necessary

16. Once you are on the help list, requesting help again will:
    A) Make the TAs come running!
    B) Make the TAs run away
    C) Bump you to back to the end of the list

17. All book examples, previous semester's exams, a list of exam topics, lecture slides, and lab samples are _______________________
    A) on page 543 of the course text.
    B) found on the course website under the lab menu and exam menu, respectively.
    C) helpful references as you learn JAVA
    D) B & C

18. What are the top two success factors in CS 142 (Select 2)
    A) Perseverance in completing programming assignments 
    B) Reading the whole entire Java API
    C) Sufficient time devoted to 142
    D) Being a close personal friend with Bill Gates

19. The computer labs are open at 3:00pm on Saturday.
    A) True
    B) False

20. Exams from 2004 are posted online along with student and TA solutions
    A) True
    B) False

21. Which one of the following IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) do we use in this course
    A) Eclipse
    B) NetBeans
    C) JGrasp
    D) JCreator
    
22. The use of GUI Builder utilities is allowed for labs and tests (Don't worry if you don't really know what a GUI Builder is)
    A) True
    B) False

23. Why do you think the syllabus states the following: "The general rule is that TAs do not touch the keyboard"?  Write up a short response.