CollegeBoard test

• Focused on the expected output of certain code blocks
  • Pseudo Code
• Had questions relating to electronics and the internet
  • IP Adress
  • Security
  • Storing data in bits

What I searched up/ChatGPT’d

• What is the internet engineering task force?
  • Standards organization for the standards of internet protocols
  • “Make the internet work better”
• What is an IP?
  • A numerical label that uses the internet protocol for communication
• What is the DMCA?
  • A law that prevents theft of copyright online
• What is metadata?
  • “Data that provides information about other data”
• What is Cloud Computing?
  • The availability of online resources without active management by the user
  • Ex: Databases

Questions I got wrong

• Choose the pseudo code that correctly gets you to the end goal
  • I got this question wrong because I read the pseudo code wrong, causing the resulting output of my choice to be wrong.
• Given psuedo code, see how long it will take to run
  • Because I only focused on the code that was being repeated, I failed to look at the code outside the loop, causing me to get the incorrect answer.
• See how the count of prey changes over time
  • Because I didn’t read the question carefully, I missed the fact that a certain function didn’t change the amount of predators over time. This caused me to get the answer wrong.
• See what the safest option is to sample music
  • I got this question wrong because I didn’t know how copyright worked for music, so the answer I got was wrong
• How would a program run based on the function?
  • I got this question wrong because of my lack of knowledge of time complexity. Computers can compute the square of a number very quickly, even big numbers. This would make the algorithm in the question run in reasonable time, making my answer wrong.
• How to manage the complexity of a problem using data abstraction
  • I got this question wrong because I didn’t know the definition of data abstraction. This caused me to misinterpret the question, making me get it wrong.

Pseudo Code

• Pseudo Code is a way to write code that is intuitive
  • = Sign represented by <-
  • print() is Display()
  • Loops are signified by “Repeat X times”
• Psuedo Code can be used to solve complex problems on paper
  • Can help you write code and make sure the code you’re writing is performing the task you want it to.