IT452 12 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.

• Things from the first 6 weeks -- not a focus, but may be necessary background
• YUI. Why use? AJAX communication. Auto-complete.
• Event loops. Animation. Techniques for causing periodic actions to occur.
• Strategies for keeping track of game objects and collisions.
• Cloud computing
• XSLT. Why use? How to use? Creating XSL and understanding what existing XSL does.
• How to use the browser to transform XML via XSLT
  1. via xml-stylesheet tag
  2. via JS and XSLTProcessor
• Web services:
  1. REST vs SOAP
  2. How to invoke
  3. Request formats and response formats
  4. Impact of same-origin policy. How to work around?

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