The Art of Computing COMP1010 26T1

Student Exam Notes

Posted by Sim Mautner Tuesday 12 May 2026, 12:02:49 PM.

Hi everyone,

I've now updated the student notes which will be provided to you during the exam. Please familiarise yourself with the layout. You'll be able to open this folder in a VSCode window and search for an individual file (labelled with your zid), search within your specific file, and search within the whole folder if you wish.

Latest Student Exam Notes

See you all tomorrow :)

Sim.

Upcoming final exam

Posted by Maddy Guthridge Monday 11 May 2026, 08:59:19 PM.

Hey all! Our final exam is on Wednesday afternoon. I hope your study is going well!

• Time: Wednesday May 13th, 1:45 PM . Please get there at least 15 minutes early.
• Location: M15 Building (the same location as our practice exam)
• For specifics, please refer to: the CSE exam allocations website .

What to bring

• Your written notes (2x double-sided sheets of A4 paper). These will be collected at the end of the exam, so if you want to keep a copy, you'll need to create that copy beforehand.
• Pens and pencils. You will be required to use them as a part of the exam.
• A clear water bottle, which contains water.
• A bag, so that you can store any materials that you cannot take into the exam (especially electronic devices such as laptops and phones).
• A physical form of photo ID.
  • Preferably, this should be your UNSW student ID.
  • Australian driver's licenses and international passports are also accepted.
  • These alternate forms of ID are only accepted in CSE lab exams , so if your UNSW student ID has expired or is missing, you should replace it as soon as possible.

What to expect

• This is a lab exam, meaning you will be expected to complete short-answer and practical programming tasks on lab computers.
• You will need to memorise your zID and password in order to log into the exam system.
• If you didn't attend the in-person practice exam, here is a video tour of exam environment: https://youtu.be/v_5qYfa_WM8
• The style of the exam will be very similar to the many practice exams we have released.

During the exam

• Sim, some of our tutors and I will be there to provide moral support and supervise.
• If anything goes wrong, please get the attention of a supervisor. We will be able to help with any technical issues.
• If you don't tell us about issues during the exam, we cannot help you afterwards.
• UNSW has a fit-to-sit policy , so if you are feeling unwell before the exam, please do not attend, or you will be unable to apply for special consideration. If you begin to feel unwell during the exam, you should tell us as soon as possible so we can help.

Best of luck with your study, and we'll see you on the day! If you've got any questions at all, please ask on the forum.

Maddy

More practice exams for your perusal

Posted by Maddy Guthridge Saturday 02 May 2026, 08:20:49 PM.

Hi all!

We have released a few more practice exams. You can download them from this page .

For all those people who attended our in-person practice exam, we've unfortunately had some issues with emailing you your work, since they get filtered by UNSW's spam filtering. If you'd like a copy of your work, please post privately on the forum, where I can upload your work as a reply.

If you've got any questions about the exam, please post on the forum, and we will be happy to help!