CMSC198J Midterm

Date: Wednesday, Jan 13, 2009

Time/Location: Your exam will take place in lecture at 3pm.

Exam Structure

• The exam will have a duration of 50 minutes. Note: We will have lecture after the exam.
• The exam will be a closed book/closed notebook exam. No calculators/computers 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 the recommended class textbook represent good practice material. In addition, these previous midterms (MidtermWinter07.doc, MidtermWinter08.doc) will give you an idea of the format associated with the exam.

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