EXAM REVIEW – TOPICS
ICS3U
EVALUATION
Question Type
True/False
Multiple Choice
Fill in the
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Long Answers
Multiple Choice
Long Answers
Category
Knowledge
Application
Thinking
Communication
15
Time
(minutes)
10
10
20
6
10
24
30
25
20
20
10
Marks
20
Checking
Total
100
marks
120
minutes
WHAT TO STUDY
 Computer
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Hardware
Anatomy of a computer
Hardware – internal computer components and their specifications
Computer Peripheral Devices
Different types of software (e. Operating Software and Application
Software)
 Binary Systems
 File Maintenance
 Intro to Programming – Variables and Data Types
 Variables and the Assignment Statement
 Primitive Data
 Abstract Data Types/Object – The String class
 Obtaining a Value from the User – The Scanner class
 Numeric Expressions /Arithmetic Operators , integer/floating point
operators. Modulo
 Type Casting and Java Math class
 Formatting Output, Constants
 Flow Control – Decision Making
 The if, if/else statements
 Nested if statements
 The switch statement
 Compound Boolean Expression - && and ||
 Generating Random numbers
 Flow Control – Repetition
 The “while” loop
 The “do while” loop
 Counters and Acumulators
 Nesting loops and ifs
 The “for” loop
 Arrays
 Declaring and initializing Arrays
 Common arrays algorithms
 File inpu/output
 The File class
 Input stream from a file
 Output stream to a file
 Methods
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Writing Methods
Parameters
Return Type
Overloading
Commenting Methods
 Topics in Computer Science
 Emerging Areas in
Computer Science
 E-waste