The exam will be closed notes, closed book, no electronics permitted, but you are permitted one 8.5" by 11" 'cheat sheet' of notes. This can be of your own design, no restrictions on the content. (It does not have to be handwritten.)
The format will be ten questions, all equal weight, with a heavy emphasis on discussion and justify-your-answer styles of question.
A review session will be held in the final lecture prior to the final exam, and the material covered will consist of course all material up to and including the review session, including all lectures, quizzes, project components, etc.
While the exam can draw on any area of the course, some of the key focus areas for this year's exam will be software development life cycles, requirements/specifications and design, version control, code reviews and inspections, testing and automation, and the use of AI in software development.
Unlike some past years, I do not plan on having you write/analyze any substantial amount of bash, git, or C++ in this year's final exam.
OLD EXAMSNote that the material covered and order of topics varies from year to year (perl in particular was covered extensively in earlier years), so don't be alarmed if some of the questions cover material we haven't touched on.
Below are some older 265 final exams.
2014,
2015,
2016,
2017,
2018, and
2019