CMSC389N Summer 2015 (Midterm II Information)

General Information

• Date: Mon, Jun 29
• 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 take a look at the general exam rules available at Exam Rules.
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• Posting any information in Piazza about the exam after taking it is considered an academic integrity violation.

Exam Structure

• 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.

Topics

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
• 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
  • rand()
  • htmlspecialchars, htmlentities
  • 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
  • JavaScript
    • JavaScript data types
    • Expressions
    • prompt
    • alert
    • console
    • Iteration constructs(while, for in, etc.)
    • Functions
    • Form Validation Using JavaScript
    • DOM
    • document.getElementById
    • getAttribute, setAttribute
    • innerHTML
    • charAt
  • JavaScript object definition
  • Object properties
  • Objects as associative arrays
  • strict mode

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

• XAMPP configuration, jQuery Mobile, PHP date functions, DNS, serialization, security information provided in slides, PHP file_get_contents
• You don't need to know the JavaScript code used to identify which element has been selected in checkboxes, drop-down lists, scrollable lists, radio buttons, textarea.
• prototypes, execution context, constructor/prototype/default pattern, AJAX, private variables, private functions, sealing/freezing objects, Error, regular expressions, JSON, iframe, video tag, audio tag, canvas tag, svg tag, geolocation, local storage.

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