CS403 Sections 01, 03, and 04                                                                                                         Spring 2009

Exam: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

 

Exam 2 Study Guide

 

Format of the exam (approx.):

                Multiple Choice questions – 20%

                Acronyms – 5% (CSS, FTP, IP, IPv6, IRC, ISP, LAN, MAN, NSP, PAN, TCP, W3C, WAN – know about half)

                T/F – 20%

                Short Essays – 25%   (probably 4 questions)

                XHTML Coding – 20%   (probably 2 problems) – I will give you some code and ask you to draw what the browser would display; I may ask you to debug code

                Fill-In The Blanks – 15% (I will provide a “word bank”)

 

Exam material: (Read all the chapters indicated below and pay particular attention to the specified topics.)

 

Chapter 3 (Excluding timeline since that was covered on the last exam)

                Review the slides

                                Go to: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/summaries.html (Select links for chapter 3 info; don’t forget username is guest and password is CS403)

                Review the posted answers to the third assignment

                                Go to: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/GRADING/grading3.html

                Remarks: TCP/IP – what it is, how it works, what are packets, and what are the benefits of packets; nslookup; IP addresses; How a Web page is retrieved, Cookies – what they are and how they are used; Internet2

 

Chapter 4

                Review the slides

                                Go to: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/summaries.html (Select Chapter 4; don’t forget username is guest and password is CS403)

                Remarks: How the Internet and the WWW are related; Browser features – personal preferences, bookmarks, plug-in and helper applications; Social bookmarking, del.icio.us, folksonomies;Writing style for the WWW vs.              that for a printed document; Writing style genres; Elements of a good Web site; Types of navigation (circular, hierarchy, exploratory)

 

Chapter 6

            Review the slides

                                Go to: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/summaries.html (Select Chapter 6; don’t forget username is guest and password is CS403)

                Remarks: FTP, anonymous FTP, ssh, rlogin, slogin, viruses, adware, spyware

 

 

Chapter 7 (Excluding lists since they were covered on the last exam)

                Review the examples from class about tables – links are provided on the FAQs page for 03/10:  http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/FAQ/faq.html

                Review the examples from class about horizontal rules and aligning images – links are provided on the class summaries page: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/summaries.html (Select Chapter 7 link - Rules and          Images; don’t forget username is guest and password is CS403)

                Remarks: Semantic vs. syntactic based style types (and examples) – these were discussed in lecture; Headers and footers; <hr /> and <br /> tags; tables - <td>, <th>, and <tr> tags, colspan, rowspan, width attributes

 

 

Chapter 9 - CSS

                Review the slides

                                Go to: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/summaries.html (Select Chapter 9 - CSS; don’t forget username is guest and password is CS403)

                Do the on-line CSS tutorial quiz

                                Go to: http://www.w3schools.com/css Select the CSS Quiz from the menu on the left side; Follow the CSS Basic tutorial – you can ignore the sections on Outline, Lists and Tables; Follow the CSS Advanced        Tutorial for the CSS Pseudo-class hyperlinks section – ignore the part on :focus, :first-child, and :lang.

                Review the CSS examples that can be found on our class FAQ page: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/CS403/FAQ/faq.html

                Remarks: Basic form of rules; Where the rules can be placed (and what they are called); How the “cascade” works; Basic rule syntax, CSS comments; ways to express colors in CSS; The benefits of using CSS for        graphical design

 

 

General remarks:

                Please DO NOT BRING CELL PHONES to the exam!

                Although you might not need all the time, you will have the whole class to finish the exam.

                I may ask questions that you answered for homework problems.

                I will ask you to write out what some acronyms mean – you will not have to explain what it means, just what it stands for. For example, WWW = World Wide Web.                             

                I do not expect everyone to know all the acronyms (it would be nice, though…) so I will let you select the ones that you want to answer by selecting them from a list. You should know at least half of what I have listed.