Exams
515 Compiler Design
Spring 2007
Exam Notes
You may bring one 1-sided sheet of notes to the Midterm
You may bring two 1-sided sheets of notes to the Final
You will be required to turn in your exam notes with your exam
Don't assume that these notes help, these exams require thinking, not memorization
Exam
Dates
Midterm: Thursday April 5 (as voted on in class on 3/27)
Final: Thursday May 17, 2:00 - 3:50
(final
schedule)
Exams
with answers (links will
become valid immediately after each exam).
Exams
From Previous Semesters
Altered
Exam Policy
When students come to me with a grading
error on an exam, I always wonder if I made a mistake or if the student
altered the exam after I graded it. Both possibilities are not
very comfortable; I don't want to think I made mistakes, and I don't
want to think students altered the exam.
I have a solution to this problem. I copy a sampling of graded
exams before I return them to students. If a student brings an
exam to me, it is one of the exams I copied, and the exam has been
altered, the student receives an F in
the course and will be reported to academic affairs.
Think about your odds of getting caught before you alter an exam.
I won't tell you how many exams I copy, but assume I copy 10%
(that's only 3-5 exams in the average class), you have a 1 in 10
chance of failing the course because you are trying to raise your exam
grade few percent. The potential bad outcome significantly
outweighs the potential good outcome.