Proficiency Exam

There is a proficiency exam available during the beginning of the semester for this course. For information and to sign up see https://proficiency.cs.illinois.edu . This semester the exam is given from Friday, August 23 to Monday, August 27th in the CBTF.

Topics you should expect:

• String processing using methods such as split and join
• Finding the min or max of a function
• File reading and writing
• Container types such as tuples, lists, and dictionaries
• Debugging / Finding the error in a given code
• Exception handling
• Classes, inheritance, and overloading
• Basic plotting

There will be about a dozen questions, all coding, and you will have multiple attempts at each one. You will have access to a jupyter notebook instance with Python in it during the exam.