[Darkphilosopher]

(Original post by drspa44)
In a bus or star network, can there be a collision with incoming and outgoing traffic between the same two nodes? In which case, to state 'no collisions' as an advantage of a star network would be wrong.

Indeed but signals that aren't destined for either the sender or receiver will not cause collision

[jtanna]

To add to exam2k10's prediction,

(Original post by exam2k10)
This is what Im going for now, based on the papers I have done.
...

• Traversal of Binary Trees (Inorder, Preorder, Postorder, Depth First, Breadth First)
• Hashing
• Insertion Sort
• Traversal of Binary Trees which involve a stack, thus making it a recursive routine
• SQL + Normalisation
• Peer To Peer networks/ public key + private key
• Firewalls
• Thin Computing vs Rich Computing (Can someone please give me a good answer to this as I feel that it may come up)
• OS Classification, API, Virtual machine
• Abstraction + Information hiding
• Stages of simulation
• 'Interesting Binary Numbers' - under the Binary section, things like smallest/biggest
• Hand Trace recursion (can't remember who's post this was from, but saw it about page 8)

Can't think of anything else, but good luck to everyone!

[FredrickTrott]

Gonna start getting ready for School.

Good Luck to Everyone!!! Lets hope for an easy Paper

[ldvico]

Heading to school now so I can grab some lunch and skim read through everything. Best of luck to everyone

[fluteflute]

I found COMP2 ridiculously easy last year, hoping today goes equally well.

But if not, I take comfort in knowing I can afford to loose some marks due to relatively low grade boundaries. It's about 80/100 for an A* and 70/100 for an A.

[Darkphilosopher]

I'm off. Good luck everyone!

[SecondHand]

I thought the paper was really suited to my strengths and all the questions I thought that would come up, came up.. Really easy paper in my opinion if you know the definitions.

[FredrickTrott]

Not too bad a paper, looking forward to other peoples answers


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[Prings21]

I was expecting much worse tbh. Everything that came up I'd revised for so hopefully I've worded all the definitions correctly! That recursion trace table was a b*tch though, took me about half an hour to do just that! I'd say overall quite an easy paper.

[fluteflute]

I agree with those who found it quite easy. Though I expect I'd have said the same about the previous papers. And TSR probably isn't representative of everybody sitting it.

[Yash13]

(Original post by Prings21)
I was expecting much worse tbh. Everything that came up I'd revised for so hopefully I've worded all the definitions correctly! That recursion trace table was a b*tch though, took me about half an hour to do just that! I'd say overall quite an easy paper.

I felt it was ok. I think I messed up on the recursion trace and the fill in the blanks was a silly error on my part as I couldn't remember the second bit Other than that it should be ok. What did you get for the order of complexity for the first algorithm?

[drumdrum]

(Original post by Yash13)
I felt it was ok. I think I messed up on the recursion trace and the fill in the blanks was a silly error on my part as I couldn't remember the second bit Other than that it should be ok. What did you get for the order of complexity for the first algorithm?

I put a^n

[fluteflute]

(Original post by drumdrum)
I put a^n

Pretty sure it was n^2. Although I'm not sure why the algorithm doesn't work in some cases...

[Yash13]

(Original post by drumdrum)
I put a^n

Damn I put O(n)

[drumdrum]

(Original post by Yash13)
Damn I put O(n)

Ahh im not saying for a second im right, 'n^2' was my first answer however. I assumed it wasn't 'n' because that means its linear right?

[Yash13]

(Original post by drumdrum)
Ahh im not saying for a second im right, 'n^2' was my first answer however. I assumed it wasn't 'n' because that means its linear right?

The basic operation decides order of complexity? So the Bop was W1 = W2, I thought that is a linear comparison. I don't know makes me a bit sick when I think of it. Only 3 marks so its ok I guess but they build up

[SecondHand]

It was n^2 because n^2 basic operations were carried out.

[exam2k10]

For that three mark dry run table I swear there was no output.

I then went on to say that it was O(n) cos I swear it was some sort of linear search

On the whole, I think the paper was good.

For the normalisation question, what did people put down for the two properties regarding the relations?
I put..
1) There should be no redundacies
2) There should be no repeating groups

[Yash13]

(Original post by exam2k10)
For that three mark dry run table I swear there was no output.

I thought there was 2

[FredrickTrott]

N^2 should have been correct, as is was a nested for loop, cycling through n times twice. Technically it should be 2n^2, as there were 2 comparisons, but multiples dont matter


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