Review for Midterm



Exam Dates

Midterm Exam in your Lab: Wed 10/31 or Fri 11/2

See the reading schedule for the time/date of the final. (The final exam will be administered in the PC in two 50-min. shifts).

Standard Exam Equipment

What the Exam Will Cover

This section will be updated one week before the midterm; you can use it now to study in real-time.

Exam Format

Both the midterm and final exams are Blackboard exams: timed (50-min), procotored, open book, open note, 30 question (5-pt each) + 3 extra credit questions. Best possible score: 165/150.

Review Topics

In any domain, our first task is to learn to call things by their correct names: 110 SI Prefixes and number names. IT Trivia Question (possible extra credit question on the exam): How many zeros follow the number 1 in "1 quattuorvigintillion"?

Nine Rungs of the IT Inferno. Be able to name the kind of components that comprise each of levels 2-3 (e.g., xsistors, logic gates, flip-flop).

From Fluency with IT, by the Committee on Literacy in IT.  "FITness involves three distinct but interrelated dimensions--intellectual capabilities, conceptual knowledge, and an appropriate skill set. An individual who develops these capabilities, knowledge, and skills becomes more fluent with information technology (FIT). Functionally, a more FIT individual is better able to use today's information technology effectively in personal and professional life, to adapt information technology to be personally relevant, and to acquire future knowledge as information technology changes than a person who is less FIT. An adequate level of FITness provides an individual with the foundational knowledge and understanding that enable him or her to advance along a continuum, becoming more and more adept at applying information technology for a range of purposes and having a deeper understanding of the technological opportunities for doing so."

Exam Study Guide: Review Exercises

As a general rule, if we did not cover a topic in class or lab, it will not be on the exam. As you progress through the course, study your book to find the answers to these end-of-chapter Exercises.

Review Questions to Study

ch. 1:
Multiple Choice: 1, 3, 5-10.
Short Answer: 1, 2, 4-6, 8-15.
Exercises: 1, 4-7.

ch. 2:
Multiple Choice: 1-3, 5-6.
Short Answer: 1-4.
Exercises: None.

ch. 4:
Multiple Choice: 1, 3, 5-10.
Short Answer: 2-8, 11-12.
Exercises: 2-5.

ch. 3:
Multiple Choice: 1-10.
Short Answer: none.
Exercises: 4

Supplementary Review Exercises

Suppose the folder My Documents > 115 contains folders f1 and f2
Folder f1 contains folders f1a and f1b
Folder f1a contains image1.jpg, project1.html and document1.doc
Folder f1b contains image2.gif, imgae3.jpg, project2.html and folder f1ba
Folder f1ba contains image4.gif.
You are editing project1.html with TextPad and want to have image4.gif displayed in that document. Write the img element that you would use.

Eddie "Slow Hand" Front created an awesome web page about guitars and he wants to put it up on his website. He saved the file as coolguitars.txt in TextPad and used SSH to upload it to /110/axes/coolguitars.txt on shell.uoregon.edu.

Eddie tried to open his webpage in FireFox using this URL:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~eddie/110/axes/coolguitars.txt

The page opened, but all of Eddie's neatly formatted HTML code was displayed instead of being rendered by FireFox! What part of his URL should he change to fix this problem?

A clue to Eddie's problem was that when he clicked the View in Web Browser button in TextPad, nothing happened. Why not?

Exam Study Guides: Review Quizzes Online

W3Schools HTML v4.1 Quiz

W3Schools CSS Quiz

W3Schools XHTML Quiz

Practice Exam in Blackboard

One week before each exam a practice exam will be posted in Blackboard in the Review folder.