CMSC198J Midterm #1

Date: Thursday, Jan 10, 2008

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

Exam Structure

• The exam will have a duration of 50 minutes. Note: We will have lecture after the exam.
• 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:

• 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>
• Variables
• Expressions
• Loops
• Conditionals
• Pseudocode
• You should understand how to use the prompt, 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, here is a previous midterm (Midterm1Winter07.doc) which will give you an idea of the format associated with the exam.

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