There will be one midterm and a comprehensive Final exam, equally weighted.
The midterm will be given in class (it is tentatively scheduled for Friday, March 7).
The cumulative Final will be on Monday, May 5, from 8:00 until 10:00 AM (this is the date and time set in the Schedule of Classes). Please make your post-semester travel plans on the assumption that you will be here until then.
My exams are always in-class, open-book, open-notes. You may bring in the text from this class, texts from other classes, other books you have found useful, or any other references you want. You may bring your lecture notes, my lecture notes off the web, lecture notes photocopied from other class members, lecture notes from past semesters... you get the idea.
No electronic aids are allowed: no calculators, no computers, no cell phones.
Students have occasionally found it useful to bring in templates for questions (for instance, Intel virtual memory translations). That's OK, too.
In order to provide anonymous grading, I require students to put their Banner ID numbers instead of their names on exams. I will take points off if your name appears on your exam. In grading the exams, I divide each exam into a pile of answers to the first question, a pile for the second, and so forth. Consequently, each question must begin on a new piece of paper (not the back side of another piece of paper!) and each page you turn in must include your Banner ID number. I'll take points off for not following this one, too.
Many of my old exams for this course can be found at http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer/classes/273/old-exams/
Last modified: Wed May 14 06:49:18 MDT 2008