Exam

Deadlines for the various parts will be given on the project page.

More information will follow and many of the questions you may have will be answered on this page later.

Supplementary questions of general interest in connection with the exam will be answered via the project home page.

The oral exam is on Monday, June 8, 2015 in IMADA's seminar room.

The examination starts at 8:30, and the examination sequence is the following:

  1. Jonas Malte Hinchely (3)
  2. Martin Pedersen (3)
  3. Mathias Wulff Svendsen (1)
  4. David Mortan Grøne Hammer (1)
  5. Casper Kehlet Jensen (1)
  6. Irvin Kubat (9)
    Lunch break (expected; may change)
  7. Selma Cikotic (8)
  8. Lars Thomasen (4)
  9. Dan Sebastian Thrane (4)
It is not possible to calculate the exact examination time from the placement in the sequence, since students earlier on the list may not show up. Thus, students are expected to show up plenty early. In principle, all students who are taking the exam on a particular date are supposed to show up when the examination starts, i.e., at the time the first student is scheduled. This is partly because of the way external examiners are paid, which is by the number of students who show up for examination. For this particular exam, we do not expect any no-shows, so showing up 30-60 minutes before the estimated time of the exam should be plenty safe.

Normal procedure for the exam

First, the student gives a short presentation of a freely chosen topic from the project. It is important to choose at least some in-depth material that demonstrates that the student has participated in the project and therefore has knowledge and experience beyond the theoretical part of a compiler course.

The presentation can take up to 10 minutes and the examinator may stop the presentation if it goes beyond this time limit. Examinator and censor will generally try to avoid asking questions during this part of the exam, unless they judge that asking a question will benefit the student. If questions are asked, the time limit will be adjusted to reflect this.

The presentation should be given using the blackboard. In addition, transparencies are allowed if the student wants to discuss elements of a larger example, where it would be too time-consuming to write the example on the blackboard. The student may bring a list of about 10 keywords in order to remember which topics to cover.

After this, examinator and censor will ask questions related to the presentation, the report and code, and the topic in general. The starting point for the discussion of your code will be a transparency with code selected from the compiler you turned in.

The total examination time will usually be about 25 minutes.

Last modified: Fri Jun 5 11:15:52 CEST 2015
Kim Skak Larsen (kslarsen@imada.sdu.dk)