Exam 2 Wrapper

Goals:

• Help you identify and correct misunderstandings
• Help you think about effective preparation strategies for future exams and the course overall
• Help me identify which concepts are most difficult and which teaching strategies have been more and less effective
• Help me identify ways I make write future exams as fair and accurate as possible

Format:

Please submit your answers to the questions below to the Midterm Exam Wrapper assignment on Canvas. Your submission must be in PDF format; your responses should be typed. If you include code, it should be in a monospaced font like Courier New, and with formatting (e.g., indentation intact).

Reflections

Please provide concise answers to any of the following questions that you think are applicable. The most helpful reflections will be thoughtful yet concise. If you don’t have anything to say on a topic, you don’t have to address it.

1. What did you struggle with the most? Were there particular concepts, structures, or syntax that prevented you from getting your code working? In the case that seeing your code would provide helpful context for you reflections, please include your code in a monospaced font such as Courier New.

2. How have you approached the assigned work for this course? Have you been doing anything else to study? How effective has your approach been? Are there ways you think you could change your approach in order to improve your learning going forward?

3. In class I identified several factors that made the exam challenging - too long, not sufficiently granular, and too reliant on understanding of functions. I’ll be working to address these in future exams, but did I miss anything? Are there any other steps I can take to help you become a better programmer?

Exam Credit

Submitting the Exam Wrapper is worth up to 2 points on Exam 2, which is now scored out of 10. Thoughtful responses will earn the full 2 points; low-effort responses are not guaranteed to earn the full 2 points.

Exam 2 scores remain capped at a maximum of 10. If your raw Exam 2 score out of 20 was raw_score and your wrapper earned wrapper_points, then your final Exam 2 score out of 10 points will be:

def calculate_score(raw_score, wrapper_points):
    score = raw_score + wrapper_points
    if score > 10:
        return 10
    else:
      return score