IT452 6 Week Exam Topics

The exam will be closed-book, open-notes. Note: not all exams will necc. be this format.

Topics. Not an exhaustive list, but things you should know about. YUI is not included.

• DOM model -- changing properties, creating/deleting/moving elements
• Traversing document's DOM tree. Node types and blank nodes.
• Browser modifications to the DOM that we would expect from looking at the static HTML.
• Event handlers like onclick. Setting handlers in static HTML vs. setting when creating a new node
• Anonymous functions: creating and using
• Web2.0: characteristics and best practices
• AJAX -- what is it, why does it help?
• Creating ActiveXObject/XMLHttpRequest (XHR).
• XHR -- synchronous vs. asynchronous
• XHR -- what it does. Alternatives to XHR for doing AJAX. How different from IT350-like XHTML/Perl system?
• XHR -- format of request and responses. Text and XML.
• XHR -- response handling. readyState and xhr.status
• XHR -- caching
• XHR -- simultaneous requests
• Traversing DOM tree for XML documents
• Creating appropriate GET URLs to send parameters. Getting parameter values based on HTML form elements.
• Server-side scripting with Perl
• Perl programs to receive CGI parameters, produce CGI output
• Perl programs to query DB
• Perl -- outputting HTML vs. text vs. XML
• Ruby on Rails. Purpose. Benefits. Basic usage.

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