Final Review

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Final Review

• December 1, 5, 2005

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Final Format

• Some multiple choice
• Some short answer
• Max 1-2 sentences
• Anything written after 2 sentences will not be
  marked
• Some longer answers
• Writing html, css, xml, xsl, or python
• Finding errors or correcting html, css, xml, xsl,
  or python

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Units Covered

• You are responsible for units 1-11 in your course
  pack
• Must know material even if it was not covered in
  lecture
• You are also responsible for all of the lecture
  notes
• Even if it wasnt in the course pack
• Anything I said in class not written in the
  presentations as well

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Format of the Review

• I am only going to hit the major high points
• Not really going to cover the material
• More like a list of items you should be really
  aware of
• If you have questions, please ask
• Please know the date of the lecture the question
  pertains to so we can pull up those lecture notes

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Main Topics- Sept 7

• History of the Internet
• ARPANET
• TCP/IP
• The Basics of the Internet
• Internet organization
• PCs, gateways, backbones
• Servers, routers, PCs
• How traffic is routed
• Protocols
• MIME types
• Parts of a URL

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Main Topics- Sept 9

• WWW
• Web crawlers and how they word
• WYSIWYG
• Markup
• Markup languages
• Why use markup
• Types of markup
• HTML

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Main Topics Sept 12

• Attributes
• Entities
• Comments
• Relative and absolute URLs
• Image specification
• Size
• Alt attribute
• Deprecated tags and attributes

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Main Topics-Sept 14

• Tables
• lttrgt, lttdgt, ltthgt
• Width, align, cell-spacing, cell-padding
• Rowspan, colspan
• Type of HTML tags
• Top level, head, block, inline
• Doctypes
• Namespace attribute

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Main Topics-Sept 16

• Tristimulus Theory
• Color Models
• RYB, RGB, HSB, CMY(K)
• Color Harmony Schemes
• Monochromatic
• Complimentary
• Analogous
• Triadic
• Web-safe colors

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Main Topics-Sept 19

• Visual Organization
• Proximity
• Alignment
• Contrast
• Consistency

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Main Topics- Sept 21

• Content organization
• Organizational Systems
• Organizational Schemes
• Exact and ambiguous
• Topical, task oriented, audience specific,
  metaphor, hybrid
• Organizational Structures
• Hierarchy (breadth, depth), hyperlink, database,
  combinations

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Main Topics- Sept 26

• Bits, bytes
• Max values
• Number ranges
• Bases
• Converting from one base to another
• How we measure storage
• Character sets, fonts, glyphs
• Word Processors and text editors

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Main Topics Sept 28

• Computer graphics
• Bitmap and vector graphics
• Paint and drawing programs
• File formats
• Type, portability, color depth, compression,
  transparency
• Bit depth
• Palettes
• Dithering

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Main Topics- Oct 3

• Why use CSS
• Cascading
• Order
• Types external, internal, inline
• Where best to define
• Part of a css rule
• Grouping
• Applying external, internal, and inline style

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Main Topics-Oct 5

• Classes and ids
• Anchors or fragments
• When to use classes or ids

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Main Topics- Oct 7

• Div and span

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Main Topics Oct 12

• Underlying box model of css
• display property
• How to use float
• How to use clear
• Creating multiple columns and navigation bars

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Main Topics Oct 19

• Type, class, and id selectors

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Main Topics- Oct 24

• XML
• Difference between xml and html
• What its for
• Root elements
• Creating tags
• XML schemas
• Why use XML

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Main Topics- Oct 31

• Naming conventions for tags
• Attributes in xml
• Parent, child, and sibling relationships with xml
  documents
• Element content
• Element, simple or text, mixed, none

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Main Topics- Nov 2

• XSL
• XSLT, XPath, XSL-FO
• Template matching
• Linking XML document to XSL
• ltxsltemplate match /gt, ltxslfor-eachgt,
  ltxslsortgt (descending as well)

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Main Topics- Nov 7

• ltxslsort data-type numbergt
• Sorting on multiple tags
• ltxslifgt
• ltxslchoosegt, ltxslwhengt, ltxslotherwisegt
• Adding additional templates
• Well-formedness
• Validation of XML documents

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Main Topics- Nov 9

• Programming, computer programs, programming
  languages
• Difference between programming language and
  markup language
• High-level and low-level languages
• Compilers and interpreters

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Main Topics- Nov 14

• Values and types
• Strings, integers, floats
• Why types are important
• Evaluating math expressions
• Variables
• Assignment statements
• Store the value of an expression
• raw_input()
• Type conversion int(), float(), string()
• Concatenation
• Strings
• Concatenating number and string using type
  conversion

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Main Topics- Nov 16

• Conditional statements
• If, elif, else
• Boolean expressions
• Nesting if statements
• Libraries, modules
• Accessing functions in a module
• Use random.randint() to generate a random number

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Main Topics-Nov 18

• Iteration
• While loops
• Counters or counter variables
• Functions
• How to define functions
• Arguments
• Return values
• Calling functions
• Passing variables into functions
• Variables to store return values

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Main Topics-Nov 21

• Web scripts or cgi scripts
• Dynamic and static web pages and files
• Simple HTML file from python script
• Content-type text/html and a blank line
• Html
• Triple quoted strings
• Print statements span more than 1 line
• Print statements with html tags that have
  attributes
• ltform action something.pygt
• Adding controls
• Input tag
• Text, checkbox, submit
• Name and value attributes
• Maxlength and size attributes

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Main Topics-Nov 23

• CGI
• Getting information from form into a variable
• Form cgi.FieldStorage()
• Dictionary
• Accessing the values in a form
• Key errors
• Storing values from form in a variable

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Main Topics-Nov 28

• Local and global variables
• Global keyword
• Lists
• Accessing individual elements
• Indexes
• Using lists with a for loop
• Using list.append(item)
• Deleting items using del keyword
• Concatenation and multiplication
• range() function
• range(10)
• range(1,11)
• range(10,0,-1)

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Main Topics- Nov 30

• How files transferred from server to browser
• HTTP request and response
• PC caching
• ISP caching
• Redirects
• Content negotiation
• File type, language, character set
• DNS
• What it is, some idea of how it works
• Domains
• First-level and second-level
• ICANN
• Domain and ip administration

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Main Topics- Unit 10

• Security Basics
• Careful of user input
• Do not execute any user input code
• Cookies
• What they are
• What they are used for
• Performance
• When you should use a web script
• Reducing memory
• Reducing number of loops

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Questions?