Exam 2 will be Wednesday, 6 November at the normal class time in the normal classroom. We will aim to start the exam right at 3:30pm, so you will benefit from arriving early for class Wednesday to be settled and ready to start the exam.
Exam 2 will cover material from Classes 1-16 (through 28 October) (so the new material introduced on Rice’s Theorem in Class 17 is not covered in this exam), Problem Sets 1-6 (comments for PS4 and PS5 are now available in collab, sorry it has taken so long to get the grading done for these, but you can see our solutions and comments in collab now; we will post comments for Problem Set 6 on Sunday afternoon), and the textbook chapters 0-6 and parts of 8 (8.1-8.4).
Most of the questions on the exam will cover topics that you will have seen in at least two different places (e.g., both in class and on a problem set, or in multiple classes, or at least both in the textbook and in class or a problem set). The exam will emphasize material that was not covered by Exam 1 (so focusing on the material on problem sets 4-6), but will also build on material earlier in the class, and you should be surprised if it does not include induction proofs.
As a reminder from the syllabus, you may construct a one-page (letter-size, two-sided) reference sheet for use during the exam, but all other resources are forbidden (no internet, textbook, other humans, magnification instruments, etc.). We expect that students will benefit from thinking about what to put on your reference sheet in preparing for the exam, and you may work with anyone you want (including other students in the class) to prepare a reference sheets together.
The class on Monday (November 4) will include an exam review. If you
have specific topics or problems you would like the review to cover,
slack them to @Dave.