Students requiring accommodations approved by the Office of Academic Accessibility must have the ordinary section of the exam administered by the Office of Academic Accessibility.
The Practical
The practical will be timed exercise with two tasks.
Decrypting and Encrypting
Decrypt a signed message using my public key, which should already be in your key chain; and generate an appropriate response to me using the your private key, which you used in Homework 5.
Graphics — vector and graphics
Generate an interesting image using a path and a picture. This will be similar to the Sticker Design project, but much simpler.
The Ordinary
The ordinary exam will be closed-book and closed-notes with short-answer questions.
Elements of programming
You should be able to “write” short “programs” similar to those in the first two Snap! programming labs.
Of course you really can’t do a complete programs However, suppose you were given a page showing a few of the Motion, Control, and Pen blocks from the Snap! programming page; could you draw a right rectangle? (Treat the last sentence as a huge hint.)
Encryption
Be able to give a brief description of public key encryption. What is generating a key, signing a message, and sending a message?
3D printing
We’ll save this for a later practical.
Image and Color
Here’s a few things you should be able to do.
- Describe the RGB color model
- Compute the number of pixels in a bitmap image given its linear dimensions in pixels or bytes
- Explain how images are digitized
- List the two elements of the human eye that respond to light waves
- Describe the significant differences between lossless and lossy visual encoding
- Give the encodings of white, black, red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, and magenta in the RGB color model
- Describe the color wheel
- Define additive and subtractive color
- Define raster and vector graphics
- State the advantages and disadvantages of common representations for images
Examples from last term’s ordinary exams
- Ordinary exam 1
- Problems 4 and 5 but with Snap!
- Problems 6 to 7
- Ordinary exam 2
- Problems 6 to 8
- Problems 10 to 12
- Ordinary exam 3
- Problems 4 to 8
- Problems 10 to 12