COP 1830 Study Guide 3

Quiz 3 will consist of 40 Multiple Choice or True/False (Yes/No) questions covering Chapter 18 in the HTML textbook and virtual Chapters A-D in our Virtual JavaScript textbook. Students are advised to review these chapters. If you want an alternative reference, you can review some sample chapters online from a different textbook at

     [http://www.javascriptconcepts.com/JavaScriptConcepts/chapters/index.html]

The statements below define the bare minimum that a student should know to be prepared for the quiz.

1. Know what "dynamic XHTML" is and how it relates to XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
2. Know basic rules of syntax for JavaScript, especially with respect to variable declaration, quoting text, commenting, and the use of line returns in JavaScript statements.
3. Know the relationship between JavaScript and Java.
4. Explain the use of the var statement and how it relates to identifier scope (ie. "global" vs. "local" identifiers).
5. Be familiar with the different JavaScript data types.
6. Know where to position JavaScript code in web page source code and what effect that positioning has on execution of the script.
7. Know how to write a single or multi-line comment in JavaScript.
8. Explain what a JavaScript function is, how to define one, and how to call (execute) it.
9. Know how to pass data into a JavaScript function and how to return data from one.
10. Know the correct JavaScript statement to send output to web document.
11. Know how to call a function that returns data.
12. Explain how to define an "external" script and how to call it.
13. Know what concatenation is and how it relates to strings.
14. Know how to use JavaScript operators for arithmetic, comparison, logical and assignment operations.
15. Know the difference between the use of parentheses ( ) and braces { }.
16. Know the meaning of "special characters" such as "\n" in JavaScript strings.
17. Know how to output a statement that contains quotes in a JavaScript strings.
18. Be familiar with the JavaScript statements used to implement basic program flow control structures such as alternative (selection) structures and loops (repetition structures).
19. Know how to produce dialog boxes for: alerting, confirming and prompting.
20. Know what MIME extension is used to identify a JavaScript.