1 Final Review

2 Final Exam  30% of your grade for the course  December 9 at 7:00 p.m., the regular class time  No makeup exam or alternate times  Closed book  Closed notes  No computers Final Review

3 Material Covered  Comprehensive  All material covered in our classroom lectures, the bonus labs, the handouts, and our homework  I may ask a question about anything that we have covered in class, however the majority of the questions will be about what we covered starting in week 7 and continuing through the end of the semester. Final Review

4 Material Covered  The most important topics to study ADO.NET –Interacting with a database ASP.NET with C# –Web controls –Properties of the Page class, such as Request, Session, and IsPostBack –State management, especially the Session –AutoPostBack –Validation –Data binding JavaScript –Regular expressions –Events and event handling –Writing a function HTTP Cookies  Some other topics that you still need to understand The Internet and the World Wide Web; HTML, XHTML, and HTML Forms; CSS; XML; the DOM Final Review

5 Test Format Approximately 20–25 questions Multiple choice – approximately 25% Short answers (not code) – approximately 5% Short code (1 line) – approximately 20% Longer code – approximately 50% Possibly an extra credit question for 5 points Final Review

6 Examples Short code (1 or 2 lines) Given a diagram showing the location of the files and directories in your Web site, write the code for inserting an image, using a relative path Given the HTML code for a simple form that uses a GET method, write the HTTP request that is submitted Longer code (approximately 5–25 lines of code) Given a requirements description and a screen shot of a simple HTML page, write a JavaScript function that gets input from a text field, uses a regular expression to test it, and puts the result into the value of a text field on the page Given a connection string, a SQL query, and an empty Page_Load method, write the code for the Page_Load method that adds the query results to a Label control on the first time the page is viewed Final Review

7 Suggestions for Studying  Look at the Learning Objectives on the course syllabus  Study the review document, “StudyGuide2.docx”, which will be posted on the class discussion page  Concentrate your study time on the major topics that we have covered in class  Make sure that you know the syntax for the most common types of code that we studied Can you write a simple JavaScript function? Do you know how to use regular expressions in JavaScript? Are you familiar with some simple ASP.NET web controls such as Label, Button, TextBox, etc. Are you familiar with the important properties of the Page class? Can you write the C# code for a simple event handler for the button click? Can you write the C# code to add data to a Session? Given a connection string, can you write the C# code to interact with a database?  Consider meeting with your team for a study session  Review the bonus labs and handouts distributed in class Final Review

8 Sample Regular Expression Question Write the regular expression that is missing from the code below. Your regular expression must be valid only for the years, 2008, 2009, and No other characters are allowed, not even white spaces. function validateExpireYear() { var result = document.getElementById("result"); var input = document.getElementById("input"); if (input.value.match(______________________)) { result.innerHTML = "valid"; } else { result.innerHTML = "NOT valid"; } /^2008$|^2009$|^2010$/ Some possible answers: Final Review /^20(08|09|10)$/ /^((2008)|(2009)|(2010))$/ /^20(0[89]|10)$/

9 References MacDonald, Matthew, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition. Apress, Schultz, David and Craig Cook, Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference. Apress, 2007.