About Quiz

Released at noon on Tue 11/15 and due by noon on Thu 11/17 is a take-home quiz that will cover Weeks 0 through 10 (and Problem Sets 0 through 8), with emphasis on Week 6 (and Problem Set 6) onward. The quiz is open-book: you may use any and all non-human resources during the quiz, but the only humans to whom you may turn for help or from whom you may receive help are the course’s heads.

The quiz will be released via the course’s website and will be submitted via submit50. You should expect to spend several (but not 48!) hours on the quiz.

The teaching fellows will hold a course-wide review session for the quiz on Mon 11/14 from 1:00pm until 2:30pm in Sanders Theatre; it will be streamed live at live.cs50.net and be available on demand immediately afterward at cs50.harvard.edu. Sections will not meet on Mon 11/14, Tue 11/15, or Wed 11/16, but office hours on Mon 11/14 will offer additional opportunities for Q&A.

The quiz’s format will be similar to the test’s format, with short-answer questions as well as longer-answer questions. Some questions may involve code (for which you’re welcome to use CS50 IDE).

How to Prepare

  1. Review each lecture’s notes.

  2. Review each lecture’s source code, if any.

  3. Review each lecture’s slides.

  4. Review each lecture’s video.

  5. Take past quizzes. Realize, though, that some topics covered in past terms might not have been covered in this term. Rely on this year’s lectures and problem sets as the official sources for this year’s topics.

  6. Review problem sets' specifications, postmortems, and distribution code, if any.