5  Exams

First exam is on Thursday, October 25th, during class hours. Exam is based on lectures and discussions in class, all slides, assignments 1–4, and chapters 1–10 (inclusive) from the Haskell book.

Second (final) exam is on Wednesday, December 12th, at 8AM (to 10). Material to study include all slides and notes from class (since the midterm) and all assignments (since the mid-term). Additionally, from big Java it is worth while to study sections 11 (interfaces and subtype polymorphism), 13 (inheritance), 22 (generics), and 23 (multithreading). Additionally, these papers are worth reading, expanding on generics, wildcards, atomics, etc:

• Torgesen et al.: Adding Wildcards to the Java Programming Language, http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2004_12/article5/
• Bracha: Generics in the Java Programming Language, java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/pdf/generics-tutorial.pdf
• Sun's “The Reflection API” tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/index.html and the “Concurrency tutorial” http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/concurrency/
• Brian Goetz: Java theory and practice: Going atomic, http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp11234/