CSCI 1710-001, Test 1 Study Guide

The table below lists the topics that will be covered on Test 1. Included for each topic is the reading from the textbook for that topic and in some cases additional resources you might find helpful for studying.

Topic Assigned Reading Additional Resources

Course Introduction:

  • Terminology
  • Basic areas of critique for web pages
  • Difference between text editors and binary editors
 Chapter 1 My intro notes

FTP and an Intro to HTML/XHTML:

  • Anatomy of URLs
  • File and folder basics
  • Difference between ASCII and binary files
 Chapter 2 In addition to reading my notes, be capable of doing this in-class exercise.

HTML basics including:

  • Container and stand-alone (in-line) tags
  • XHTML requirements
  • The structure of an HTML/XHTML page
  • Commenting HTML code
  • The use of the tags <body>, <head>, <html>, heading tags (<h1>, <h2>, etc.), <p>, <br>, <hr>, <i>, <u>, and <b> tags and their attributes.
 Chapter 6 Be capable of doing this debug exercise.

Links:

  • The <a> tag along with the attributes href and target
  • Absolute and relative path names and URLs
  • Linking to locations or fragments within the same document
  • Linking to locations or fragments within a different document
  • Using "mailto"
 Chapter 7 Be capable of doing this in-class exercise.

Adding graphics:

  • The <img> tag along with the attributes src, height, width, alt, align, and border
  • Linking using images
 Pages 253-265 Be capable of doing this in-class exercise.

Image maps:

  • The coordinate system for images
  • The attribute usemap for the <img> tag
  • The container tag <map> with its attributes name and id
  • The in-line tag <area> with its attributes shape, coords, href, and alt
 Pages 268-275 Be capable of doing this in-class exercise.

Image types:

  • The characteristics specific to each of the image file formats
  • Decide which image file format would be best for a particular application
  • Understand in general how the images are compressed for each format
 Pages 265-268 and 275-278 Examine my notes on image types

The test will not cover anything on the FTP procedure. You must learn this procedure in order to display your files to the world and therefore to pass this course, but you won't be tested on it.