CS403 Sections 01, 03, and 04

Spring 2009

Study Guide for Exam 3/Final Exam

Date of final: Thursday, April 30, 2009

Reminder: No cell phones, no mp3 players, no talking, no leaving the room before you are done working on the exam J

Format of final:

Disclaimer – The actual format of the exam may change slightly from what I have indicated below. This is only intended to be a guide to studying…

• Multiple Choice – 35%
• Fill-In-The-Blanks – 20%
• Short Essays – 15% (3 questions)
• Acronyms – 5% (CGI, FTP, GIF, JPG, LZW, NNTP, PGP, PNG, RSA, RSS plus acronyms from previous study guides)
• True/False – 15%
• XHTML Coding – 10% (2 problems; one will be forms and the other will be frames)

Material to be covered on final:

Disclaimer – The actual material on the exam may change slightly from what I have indicated below. This is only intended to be a guide to studying…

• About 50% (+/-) of the material will be cumulative; the best way to prepare for this part of the exam would be to correct and study the first two exams. I will not include UNIX commands on the final exam.

• The other 50% (+/-) of the material will be the information covered since the last exam.

In addition to what we discussed in class, this includes:

o Chapter 5 – Searching the WWW (see the link on our class Summaries page for slides). This material includes:

Directories (general and specific), Search Engines (general, specific, meta), “Invisible Web,” how search engines work including search engine components and depth-first and breadth-first search, Boolean operators, White Pages (see slides), Google details.

o Chapter 8 – Web Graphics. This material includes:

Popular image formats for the Web, lossy compression, lossless compression, image maps, scanners, thumbnails (see slides).

o Chapter 9 – Advanced XHTML. CSS from Chapter 9 was covered before the last exam (and I may still ask questions about it on the cumulative portion of the exam); the new material includes:

Frames, inline frames, targets (including special/magic targets), forms, dynamic documents (client pull/server push), CGI, cgiemail (you should know what cgiemail is, how it works, and how it is used by a form, what you need to do to change a form from working with a mailto url to using cgiemail) (see slides)

o Chapters 10 & 11 – Electronic Publishing and Misc. Topics - This includes:

Newgroups (ROT 13), Mailing Lists, differences between newsgroups and mailing lists, difference between distribution list and mailing list, other communication mechanisms used on the Internet. Pros/Cons of electronic publishing, copyright issues, Project Gutenberg (why are these literary works available on-line without copyright infringement?), Wikipedia, Napster & Gnutella, RSS, Encryption (see slides).

o Dot Con – PBS Frontline video; see link on FAQs page