Final Exam

• Tuesday November 22, 2:45 - 5:00pm, O'Connell (1036 W. Belden) room 330.

The final exam is worth 35% of the grade (70 points). The exam is a closed-notes, closed-book, individual-effort exam. You may take up to 2 hours and 15 minutes to complete the exam.

The format of the exam is similar to the midterm and quizzes. It will include multiple choice, short-answer, code-tracing with output, and writing code using HTML and Javascript.

Review of Major Concepts

General concepts and background information

• Computers, Internet and the Web
• Role of HTML, CSS and Javascript for web development
• Cookies (class notes)
• Overview of Server-side scripting (class notes)

General knowlege of the topics in these areas is expected. The exam will typically address these topics with multiple choice and short answer questions.

Technical knowledge

• HTML
• General structure of a Web page
• Familiarity with common tags
• Absolute and relative links
• Tables
• Common Form components (e.g. text boxes, buttons, radio buttons, check boxes)
• Styles and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Familiarity with common styles (e.g. color, text-align, border)
• Inline, internal and external specification
• Using Class or ID for specialized styles
• Javascript
• Alert boxes
• Expressions and assignment statements
• Functions (with and without parameters)
• Accessing HTML Form components (basic Document Object Model)
• if statements
• Familiarity with String properties (e.g. length) and methods (e.g. toUpperCase())
• Problem-solving strategies
• Counters
• Running totals
• Adding text to a text area
• Comparing values with if statements for alternatve messages

Some practice problems

Review the code and predict the results before you press the button!

• if statements
• strings

What does this web page do when you enter a string and press the button? Can you predict its behavior by just looking at the source code?

Modify the page so that it does the following:

1. Formats the selected text so that it appear in bold.
2. Provides a menu (see weather page for an example) so that the user can choose whether the phrase appears in bold or italics.