CS 101   Web Construction,  Winter 2010,  Instructor:  Jeffrey Horn   GUIDE TO THE FINAL EXAM

GENERAL

 

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    • TOPICS  (not necessarily complete, but I tried!)

    1. BASIC HTML
    2. MORE HTML
      1. Inserting local and remote images.
      2. Hyperlinks to local and remote web pages.
      3. Making images become  hyperlinks.
    3. BASIC CSS
    4. FORMS
      1. What the action attribute specifies.
      2. How the submit button triggers the action.
      3. How to NAME datafields in the form so that their values are sent when the submit button is clicked.
      4. How the serverside script generates an html web page dynamically, and sends it back to the browser.
      5. How the server can do other things with the data that it is sent.
    5. BASIC JAVASCRIPT
      1. How to add javascript to a web page via the "onclick" attribute of a button, image, image map, etc.  When will this code run?  This code will only run when the user actually clicks on the html element that has this javascript as its "onclick" attribute!
      2. How to add javascript to a web page via the "<script>" element (in the <head>).  When will this code run?  This code will only be run once, when the page is first loaded.
      3. Javascript syntax (semi-colons at the end of each statement, case-sensitivity, comment syntax).
    6. OTHER TOPICS:
      1. Accessibility:  use of "alt" attribute for images, to describe image in words.
      2. Know how to use the browser's "view source" to get at web page's source code".
      3. Server-side vs. client-side scripts (what are the differences?)
      4. Server operation:  e.g., what gets served up out of the pub folder (answer:  everything!)

    HTML ELEMENTS you should know (not necessarily complete!)

    Document Structure:  <html><head><title><body><!--  comment -->

    Text Spacing and Formatting:  <i><b><sub><sup><big><small><strong><cite><hr /><br /><quote>

    Text Headings:  <h1><h2><h3><h4><h5><h6>

    Grouping Text:  <p><dif> <span>

    Lists:  <ul><ol><li>

    Tables:   <table><tr><td><th><caption>

    Forms and Programming:  <form><input type="text"><input type="radio"><input type="checkbox"><input type="submit"><textarea><select><script>

    Others:   <img><a><style>

    CSS PROPERTIES you should be aware of (not necessarily complete!)

    You should feel comfortable with any of the properties on this handout (you can skip the material on the bottom 12 lines).   By that I do not mean that you are expected to memorize them; just be able to have some idea what each does, if you come across them in some code, and be able to look them up if you need to use them yourself, ever.

    JAVASCRIPT COMMANDS you should know (not necessarily complete!)

    Javascript Command Example
    alert alert("Your age is below the minimum!");
    if-then-else

    if( age <  0)  
       alert("You are too young to enter.");
       else alert("You may enter");  

    var var x;
    assignment x = 1;
    incrementing a variable x=x+1;     or    x++;
    assignment to part of a form document.forms.myForm.totalPayment.value = cost_of_items + shipping + tax;
    document.getElementById("totalPayment").value = cost_of_items + shipping + tax;
    changing any attribute in a web page document.images.aardvark.width = document.images.aardvark.width + 10;
    document.getElementById("aardvark").width =                  //  This assumes that the <img> element has id="aardvark".
                                                                document.getElementById("aardvark").width  + 10;
    document.images.barnyardAnimal.src = "horse.gif";
    document.getElementById("barnyardAnimal").src = "horse.gif";   //  This assumes that the <img> element has id="barnyardAnimal".
    comment
    //    Use double slashes for short, one line comments

    /*  This is the syntax for comments that span more than one line.  You can use whole paragraphs for comments, just by putting the slash-star and star-slash delimiters around the whole thing!  */
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