Midterm #1 (CMSC389N (Spring 2018))

• Date: Thursday, March 8, 2018
• Time/Location: Your exam will take place in lecture.
• Duration: 75 minutes
• Closed-book, Closed-notebooks, No Computers/Calculators.
• Use a pencil/mechanical pencil (no pen) to answer the exam.
• Please bring a stapler if you tend to separate the pages of the exam.
• Please take a look at the general exam rules available at Exam Rules.
• The best way to prepare for the exam is to practice old exams. Complete several of them in the allocated time specified in the exam.
• We curve in this course. After you taken the exam, do not discuss anything associated with the exam with other students that have not taken the exam yet.
• Posting any information in Piazza about the exam after taking it is considered an academic integrity violation.

• Short answer questions: This includes for example, multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank type questions.
• Code analysis questions: We will give a short segment of code and you may be asked to identify syntax and logical errors, generate code output, etc.
• Code Writing: Write a program/code snippets to solve a given problem. You should be prepared to give a complete program, but we may also ask you to provide just a single function or a code fragment.

The exam will include all the material covered in lecture and projects including the following topics:

• Only the following HTML
  • How to define tables.
  • How to define ordered and unordered lists.
  • How to define forms using text fields, hidden fields, and submit buttons. You don't need to know any other form elements (e.g., radio buttons, etc.)
  • Other tags you should be familiar with:
    • <br>
    • <strong></strong>
    • <em></em>
    • <h1></h1>
    • <div></div>
    • <span></span>
    • <p></p>
    • <pre></pre>
    • <img>
    • <a></a>
    • <img>
• Only the following CSS properties
  • color
  • font-size
  • table properties: border-collapse
  • background-color
• CSS Selectors
  • id selectors
  • class selectors
  • type selectors
• PHP Language
  • echo
  • print
  • variables
  • superglobals
  • expressions
  • casting
  • constants
  • conditional statements
  • iteration statements
  • functions
  • default arguments
  • arrays
  • foreach
  • array_keys(), count(), array_values(), functions
  • string functions: only explode() and trim()
  • include functions: only require_once
  • heredoc
  • self-referencing scripts
  • header function
  • type conversions
  • processing information submitted via forms using PHP
  • reading/writing from files
  • cookies
  • sessions
  • array_map
  • random_int()
  • htmlspecialchars, htmlentities
  • data types hinting
  • iterators
  • namespaces
  • exceptions
  • spaceship operator
  • null coalesce operator (??)
  • password_hash()
  • SQL
    • How to create a table of strings and integers
    • How to insert a record in a table
    • How to delete a record
    • How to display the table
  • Server Side Includes
  • Object-Oriented PHP
    • defining classes and interfaces
    • Constructor
    • Using $this
    • __toString
    • parent::
    • static fields and methods
    • public, private, protected
    • const
    • ::self
    • get_class
    • abstract/anonymous classes
  • Serialization

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

• XAMPP configuration, Bootstrap, PHP date functions, DNS, Security, JavaScript

PreviousExams.zip: Notice that previous exams may cover material that is not part of this midterm.

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