HCI 201: Multimedia and the World wide Web
midterm review

Test question examples

• The midterm will cover chapters 1,2 ,3, 4,5,6,7,10 and all the articles that were assigned though 10/15.
  
  
• All the material covered in lectures through the 15th will also be covered on the midterm.

The following are study questions to help you prepare:

I will be adding to this list until class time 10/15

• What are the different types of image files for WebPages?
• How did the Internet come about?
• What is a browser and how does it work?
• What tags must be in a Webpage?
• What tags do not require closing tags?
• How does an heuristic evaluation differ from other forms of usability testing?
• What kinds of usability tests have you heard about in lecture and read about online?
• how are they different?
• Why is usability testing important?
• What is hexadecimal?
• What is javascript?
• What is CSS?
• What does a hexadecimal color code consist of?
• How and why did HTML come to be?
• What languages did html evolve from and what languages is HTML related to?
• Know the basics of setting permissions in UNIX
• Is HTML case sensitive?
• Is UNIX case sensitive?
• What are they different design guidelines we have covered and what do they look like in action?
• Know what the different text, link, image, and format tags do.
• What does nesting mean and how is it used?
• How does color work on the web?