4003-380 Introduction to Computer Science Theory: Final Exam
When and Where
Friday, November 19, 12:30-2:30pm, room GOL(70)-1400 (the big auditorium on the first floor).
Review
Thursday, November 18, 6:20-8:20pm, in GOL(70)-2400.
Office Hours
Thursday, November 18, 4:00-6:00pm
I will not hold my regular office hours during the finals week due to a scheduling conflict.
Tutoring
The tutoring schedule for finals week is:
- Mon: 2:00pm-3:30pm (Andrew)
- Tue: 1:30pm-3:30pm (Andrew)
- Wed: 1:30pm-3:30pm (Andrew)
- Thu: 1:30pm-3:30pm (Andrew)
Don't let Andrew sit in the center on his own, come by for help!
Important
Make sure that you handle all grading issues by Thursday!
Topics
The emphasis of the final is on new stuff (described below)
and on overview questions.
You do need to know the main points of Chapter 1, but not the details.
For example, you should know that NFAs are equivalent to DFAs, but
you will not be required to apply the subset construction.
New stuff
You should have a good idea about the proofs from class but I will not ask you
to reconstruct them. You might be asked to prove similar statements to those on
the homeworks (e.g., apply the pumping lemma).
- Context-free languages: Chapter 2, Chapter 2 notes, homework,
and what we did in class
- Turing machines: Chapter 3, Chapter 3 notes, homework, and what we
did in class.
- Decidability: Section 4.1, Chapter 4 notes, homework,
and what we did in class.
- Reducibility: Chapter 5 notes, homework, and what we did
in class.
- Time Complexity: Chapter 7 notes, homework, and what we did
in class.
Notes
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The final will be closed book and notes,
but you may bring one sheet of letter-sized paper with your own
hand-written notes. You may write on both sides.
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Like the midterm, the final will consist of five questions
of equal weight.
Your lowest question score won't count.
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The final can not be made up except for real emergencies in which case
proper documentation (like a doctor's note) will be required.
You should notify me of your absence as soon as possible (in almost
all cases, this will be well before the final).
Oversleeping, cars that don't start etc. do not constitute a valid excuse.
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Use of calculators, cell phones, PDAs etc. is not allowed. You may set your electronic device to show the current time (but you are not allowed to touch the device during the exam).
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You may only leave the room after you turn in your exam.
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The final is worth 25% of your course grade. (Or 30% if your score is higher than your midterm's score.)
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To get some idea of the format of the final and the level of
difficulty of the questions, you can look at
some sample final questions.
This is just to get some idea. The sample questions do not guarantee
anything about the topics of the questions on your final and
they do not guarantee the exact level of difficulty
of the questions on your final.
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And here will appear the
sample final questions with
answers.
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We also have a collection of short quizzes - solve them for more practice (they are meant to take 5 minutes each, thus as correspondingly easier than the full practice final problems).
You can find all quizzes here.