CMSC389J Winter 2016 (Final Exam Information)

General Information

• Date: Fri, Jan 22
• Time/Location: Your exam will take place in lecture.
• Duration: 50 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.
• Information about taking exams Taking Exams.
• 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, buttons 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>
    • <div></div>
    • <p></p>
    • <img>
    • <a></a>
    • <img>
• Only the following CSS properties
  • color
  • font-size
• CSS Selectors
  • id selectors
  • class selectors
  • type selectors
• 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
  • Prototypes, constructor/prototype/default patterns
  • Private variables, private functions
  • JSON
• Localstorage
• Cookies

The exam will NOT cover the following topics:

• Server side includes
• XAMPP configuration
• jQuery Mobile
• 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.
• Regular expressions, iframe, video tag, audio tag, canvas tag, svg tag, geolocation, Node.js.
• Sealing, freezing objects
• Error
• Ajax
• Framework information

Some Practice Material

The course cmsc389N covers both JavaScript and PHP. Some previous exams can be found at previous389NMidterms.zip

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