Mid-term Exam prep outline
There will be problems from each of Chapters 2 - 8 of Abelson. Here are a few topics you should EXPECT:
Ch. 2 Expect an essay about the trade off between privacy and security
Ch. 3 For sure a little something about metadata
Ch.4 Search engine issues--for sure how Google rank algorithm works
Ch. 5 How public key encryption works. Essay related to encryption and security
Ch. 6 IP--for sure a fair use analysis
Ch. 7 Free speech including freedom vs. security (might be a little something on the legislative history of these efforts)
Ch. 8 Perhaps something about the legal repercussions of "the public airwaves".
You can deduce that there will be light coverage of Ch. 3 and Ch. 8.
App Inventor questions
Quiz questions taken from the web site quizzes, especially:
http://www.appinventor.org/content/CourseInABox/Intro/Quiz1
http://www.appinventor.org/content/CourseInABox/drawAnimate/Quiz2
http://www.appinventor.org/content/CourseInABox/drawAnimate/Quiz3
http://www.appinventor.org/content/CourseInABox/textingLocation/Quiz5
For sure something about procedural abstraction, and perhaps other things you have learned in your app development work.