Past exams and quizzes
Below are some past exams. Since the emphasis in ECE 26400 shifts slightly from semester to semester, some of these may include topics not covered this semester, and vice versa. Some of these have been edited to correct typos.
Quinn
| Spring 2023 | Quiz 1 | blank | Addresses | |
| Quiz 2 | blank | solution | GDB | |
| Quiz 3 | blank | Valgrind | ||
| Quiz 4 | blank | solution | GDB (more) | |
| Quiz 5 | blank | Bytes in memory | ||
| In-class exercise | blank | solution | address syntax | |
| Spring 2022 | Final exam | blank | solution | representations, linked lists, trees, structures, memory faults, writing and reading files, endianness, buffer overflows |
| Spring 2020 | Exam 1 | blank | solution | representations, GDB, addresses, preprocessor, TDD |
| Spring 2019 | Exam 1 | blank | solution | representations, addresses, memory, segments, strings, code quality |
| Exam 2 | blank | solution | numbers in memory, GDB x/, preprocessor, unions, linked lists, linked lists with C99, memory management, Valgrind, BSTs, bug detection/diagnosis | |
| Exam 3 | blank | solution | representations, structures/unions, test coverage, binary files, file operations, dynamic structures (BSTs), preprocessor + recursion, const + memory + errors, parallel programming (threads) | |
| Quiz 1 | blank | solution | Address syntax | |
| Quiz 2 | blank | solution | GDB | |
| Quiz 3 | blank | solution | Vim | |
| Quiz 4 | blank | struct address syntax, structs in memory, heap, assert, DRY rule / code deduplication (all copied from past quizzes) | ||
| Quiz 5 | blank | solution | image files | |
| Quiz 6 | blank | stack inspection | ||
| Fall 2017 | Exam 1 | blank | solution | |
| Exam 2 | blank | solution | linked lists, multi-dimensional arrays, files, function addresses | |
| Exam 3 | blank | solution | linked lists, recursion(x2), code quality, binary files, images, syntax for structures and memory addresses, Huffman coding | |
| Quiz 1 | blank | solution | structures in memory | |
| Quiz 2 | blank | solution | GDB | |
| Quiz 3 | blank | solution | memory, malloc(…), assert(…), DRY rule | |
| Quiz 4 | blank | solution | exam 1 remix: struct/address syntax, memory, malloc(…) | |
| Quiz 5 | blank | solution | files, arrays | |
| Quiz 6 | blank | solution | linked lists | |
| Quiz 7 | blank | solution | bitwise operations | |
| Quiz 8 | blank | solution | Huffman coding, BMP images | |
| Fall 2016 | Exam 1 | blank | solution | number bases, ASCII, data types, strings, malloc, variadic functions, test-driven development, GDB, memory, code quality |
| Exam 2 | blank | solution | ||
| Exam 3 | blank | solution | ||
| Quiz 1 | blank | solution | number bases | |
| Quiz 2 | blank | solution | linked lists in memory | |
| Quiz 3 | blank | solution | Vim | |
| Quiz 4 | blank | solution | dynamic memory, valgrind | |
| Quiz 5 | blank | DRY, assert, sizeof, BSTs, qsort (exam #2 recap) | ||
| Quiz 6 | blank | binary files, BMP image format | ||
| In-class exercise | blank | solution | address syntax | |
| In-class exercise | blank | binary search trees (BSTs) | ||
| In-class exercise | blank | solution | deduplicating code - DRY Rule | |
| In-class exercise | blank | solution | dynamic memory, malloc(…) | |
| In-class exercise | blank | form for memory exercises | ||
| In-class exercise | blank | solution | pre-/post-conditions and loop invariants | |
| In-class exercise | blank | pthread and multi-threaded programming | ||
| In-class exercise | blank | pass by address, swap(…) | ||
| In-class exercise | blank | stack inspection at the low level | ||
| Fall 2015 | Exam 1 | blank | solution | |
| Exam 2 | blank | solution | number bases, GDB, Vim, dynamic memory, code quality, memory | |
| Final exam | blank | solution | ||
| Quiz 1 | blank | solution | bases, printf | |
| Quiz 2 | blank | dynamic memory, valgrind | ||
| Quiz 3 | blank | solution | Vim | |
| Quiz 4 | blank | solution | linked lists in memory | |
| Quiz 5 | blank | solution | linked lists, sizeof(…) | |
| Quiz 6 | blank | solution | threads | |
| Quiz 8 | blank | solution | files, gdb | |
| Fall 2014 | Exam 1 | blank | joint with Lu | Exam 2 | solution | joint with Lu | Exam 3 | blank | solution |
| Final exam | blank | solution |