Programming as Problem Solving

The final exam will be distributed via gradescope. The exam is open book but any type of communication is strongly prohibited. The exam will begin at 02:30 pm Canberra time on 14 November 2020, and will run for 3 hours. The final exam covers all content from Week 2 to Week 12.

Screen recording:

The exam will be self-invigilated. You should create a screen recording of your entire exam, including a webcam image of you and an ID card. Note that this process is encouraged, but not required. You will not be asked to pass your recording on to ANU. You should keep your recording safely for one month. If the ANU should raise any concerns about the integrity of the work you did during the exam, you will have the option to submit your screen recording as evidence to support your case.

Find screen recording software that you trust works well on your computer. Test it, and make sure you can successfully record the whole of your screen. Some options:

• Quicktime is built into MacOS and allows you to easily do a screen recording. Instructions from Apple here. Note that for Mojave and later, you can bring up the screen recording with the hotkey Shift+Command+5, described here.
• Free Cam is an application for Windows that provides very similar features to Quicktime. There are instructions on how to use Free Cam here.
• VLC is a widely used open source application for Windows, MacOs, and Linux. VLC supports screen recordings as described here.
• Nvidia’s ShadowPlay is a simple way to record your whole desktop if you are using Windows and have a supported Nvidia graphics card. Here’s a youtube video explaining how to do it.

• AMD offers similar software if you are using a supported AMD graphics card. Details from AMD here.

• if you decide to record your exam then ensure that you have a working webcam and bring up a live view of your face, and your ID card, while recording. Ensure that this works, so that your screen recording can include a live view of you and your ID (if you don’t have an ANU ID you should use your driver’s license or passport). Before the exam, you need to make sure all of your software is working correctly, that you know how to do screen recordings, can capture a live view on your webcam while doing a screen recording.

Before the exam:

• ensure you have a home setup for the course including ghc/ghci and VSCodium; or
• ensure you have access to the lab environment via Linux VDI
• ensure you can access COMP1100 on gradescope

At the start of the exam:

• log in using your ANU email to gradescope
• you will see final-semester Exam on gradescope under COMP1100.
• COMP1100 final-semester exam
• no student currently has access to this exam.
• during the exam, tutors will be available on Piazza and Teams so that students can get help in case technical problems arise.

Oral Examinations

As part of the final exam, students are required to attend a followup oral examination, consisting of a small number of questions aiming to confirm their exam mark. If the convenor is not satisfied with the outcome of this oral examination, this may result in failure of the final exam and/or an investigation under ANU’s academic integrity rules.

• Please go here and select a preferred time slot (do not choose xx:50 slots, e.g. 09:50). Select only one.
• Oral examinations will be held on 16-17 November 2020 on Microsoft Teams.
• The length of oral examinations will be 5-10 mins
• Students need to have a photo ID which you can show before the oral exam on camera

Past Exams

Students can access exams of previous years which can be used to practice with the final exam. The number of weighting of questions and the material covered for the final exam may be different from the previous exams, more information will be posted later this week.