CS 451 Final Exam Review

Final Review

Exam will consist of no more than 25 multiple choice questions. I will reuse some questions from the midterm exam. Be sure to study the midterm in D2L. You should still have access to the midterm. Each question includes your response and the correct answer.

(1) Choose quizzes from Assessment menu, (2) find midterm exam in list, (3) select submissions from quiz menu, (4) select attempts.

HINT: review the weekly schedule for details

Git

repository: working copy, remote copy
branches vs. forks
procedures for collaboration (pull and push)
conflict resolution

Testing

pytest vs. unittest vs. doctest
why unit testing contributes to better programs?

Application Development

requirements files
project layouts
virtual environments
pip
understand philosophy of release early release often
why are prime directives critical to success of open source software?
the overarching message in Cathedral and the Bazaar?
bugs (finding them or fixing them. which is more difficult?)

Documentation

pydoc

Project Management (chapter 3)

pert (program evaluation and review technique) / gantt charts
CPM: critical path methods

Requirements/Design (chapter 4)

purpose of requirements and categories
use cases

New since midterm

Low Level Design

inheritance
method override

Design Patterns

(DP) Design Patterns - chapter 1
understand composition pattern ==> why do the authors consider composition a better strategy for reusability than inheritance? (DP: p.18)
understand the template method pattern (generics)
consider three types of software that can benefit from design patterns (DP: p.25) and why: application programs, toolkits, frameworks

Frameworks and Django

Django Generic Views
Django Class Based View Inspector
model-view-controller (MVC) architectures
how django handles web requests (client->server->urls->view->model->view->server->client)
understand how django generic views utilize the template method design pattern (see week 15)
what is a method resolution order