CSCI A348/A548
Lecture Notes 17

Fall 1999

These notes are posted late. In class we reviewed the material for the exam.

The exam is on Thursday in class (7:00pm). It contains 16 problems, all of them open-ended. Some of the problems are similar to those that you have seen in the on-line quizzes. On the exam, however, instead of choosing the right alternative among several distractors, you will just have to provide the correct answer for this kind of questions.

Things you need to review for the exam:

HTTP
CGI
Apache
Unix
Perl
JavaScript

The exam is open-book. Useful resources:

lecture notes
lab notes
in-lab assignments
on-line quizzes
homework assignments

Things you will be expected to handle with ease:

basic Perl understanding
command-line arguments with Perl
scalars, strings, lists in Perl
pattern matching in Perl
read from write to a file in Perl
read from write to pipe (external program) with Perl
write CGI applications with Perl
use CGI.pm to write CGI applications with Perl
read/parse CGI data in Perl with ReadParse or CGI.pm
client-side JavaScript programming
basic understanding of JavaScript the language

The total number of points on the exam is 114.

These points are approximately distributed as follows:

36 points in 5 questions: Perl
21 points in 5 questions: Apache/Unix
35 points in 4 questions: JavaScript
22 points in 3 questions: CGI/Perl

There is one question that has two parts. There are 16 questions in all.

If you're required to write a program the program will be checked for overall logic rather for syntax so if a semicolon is missing no points will be deducted. If you're required to say what a program will print you must be very accurate, as accurate as you can.

Partial credit will be given where appropriate.

The exam will be posted as lecture notes 18 on Thursday night with solutions.

Last updated: October 28, 1999 by Adrian German

CSCI A348/A548 Lecture Notes 17

CSCI A348/A548
Lecture Notes 17