CMSC198N Midterm #1

Date: Monday, March 3, 2008

Time/Location: Your exam will take place in lecture.

Exam Structure

• The exam will have a duration of 50 minutes.
• The exam will be closed book/closed notebooks. No calculators are allowed. (We recommend using a pencil and eraser, rather than a pen.)
• Format:
• 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 few given problems.

Topics

The exam will include the material covered in lecture and projects. In specific:

• Networking fundamentals
• Web Fundamentals
• IP Addresses
• Web Server
• DNS
• URLs
• Only the following HTML
  • How to define tables.
  • How to define ordered and unordered lists.
  • 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>
• Box Model
• Only the following CSS properties
  • font-family
  • background
  • color
  • font-size
  • text-align
  • margin
  • padding
  • border
  • font-style
  • font-weight
• Pseudo-classes
  • a:link
  • a:visited
  • a:hover
  • a:active
• Selectors
  • id selectors
  • class selectors
  • type selectors
  • descendant selectors
• Variables
• Expressions
• Loops
• Conditionals
• Pseudocode
• You should understand how to use the prompt, confirm, Number, document.writeln, and alert functions.
• The exam will NOT cover the following topics:
  • Defining your own functions.
  • Arrays
  • Events
  • Komodo

Practice Material

Exercises in your textbook represent good practice material. In addition, the following practice questions (PracticeQuestionsMid1.doc) which will give you an idea of the format associated with the exam.

Web Accessibility