CSC 104 sample test problems

Here is an attempt to provide a sample test problem in each CSC 104 topic category. They vary in quality, but hopefully suffice to give you an idea of what to expect. Most of them are from final exams, but some are from term tests.

basic usage of the CDF computer system
problem-solving; computation as data flow; the idea of an algorithmic machine; hardware versus software; parts of a computer; algorithms
Polya's problem-solving phases
secondary storage and hierarchical filesystems
basic principles of modern graphical user interfaces; the user experience in modern operating systems
data communications; the internet; IP addresses; URLs
data representation
shell scripts
numeric expressions and spreadsheet programs
string expressions
boolean expressions and 'if's
the World-Wide Web and HTML
simple sequences of statements in computer programming
'if' statements, 'for' loops, 'while' loops
history of computing machinery
time calculations
searching and sorting algorithms
the Bresenham line algorithm
social issues in computing: impact of computers, social engineering, ethics, etc.

The above problems are primarily from these two previous CSC 104 exams, available here with solutions:

December 2005
April 2010

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