C212 Exam Advice

1. Double check your work. Be sure all code is syntactically correct and trace its run-time behavior. If you have time, triple check your work.
2. Avoid style crimes and misdemeanors.
3. Write in a style in which the distinction between upper and lower case is clear: Java is case sensitivity. This time grading was lenient about this.
4. Unless it substantially simplifies the problem, if you make essentially the same mistake multiple times in the same question it will only be marked and points deducted the first time.
5. Do not commit style crimes or misdemeanors.
6. If you provide more than one solution to a problem, only what appears to be the first or main one will be graded (unless it is crossed out).
7. Do exactly what the problem says. For example, if your are to define a method named doit, define a method named doit, not one named something else you might prefer, like illDoIt.
8. Avoid stray marks that might be mistaken for a misplaced semicolon or other punctuation.