COAP:COAP-2100/week5

Week 5 COAP 2100

Mid-term exam (provisional !)

You will be allowed to use all materials (open book, open Internet). However, use of a communication software (including websites like Facebook) is strictly forbidden. Offenders will get an F.

Subjects that will be tested

• Be able to find information in the Firefox Codeburner/SitePoint HTML and CSS reference
• Understanding of underlying principles of web formats (HTML, XHTML and CSS) including some the history
• Be able to create HTML code and detect errors
  • DocType declarations (superficially, e.g. understand the difference between the strict and transitional HTML4x/XHTML1x models)
  • Required tags: html,body,title,link,style,a,img,h1,h2,h2,p,blockquote,ul,ol,li,div,span
  • Required attributes: style + the elementary attributes of the HTML a,img and link tags.
  • Note: I may design an exam question that asks you to find the definition of another HTML tag or attribute.
• Simple CSS styling
  • Basic selectors
  • Class and IE selector
  • Simple boxing properties (not positioning)
  • Simple text properties, e.g. fonts, color, line spacing, left/right/center alignment
• Color models
  • Principles of RGB, RGBa, HSL and HSLa (not HSV) and use for CSS color and background-color values.
• Simple design principles
  • Be able to comment on a web site design
  • Use of color palettes (basic principles)
  • Testing a web site with users
• Wikis
  • Principles, i.e. what is a wiki, in which contexts are they popular, kinds of wiki engines (roughly)
  • Mediawikis (create a page, titles, paragraphs and list, internal and external links, categories, simple use of pictures)
  • Wiki governance (editing policies)

Exam type

• The exam will be a quiz with various types of questions(e.g. MCQs, fill-in, debug, short answers)