MIDTERM A -- Review Questions -- Winter 2007

Part A. Definitions.  Define the following terms:

Browser, Text Editor, Server, Host, Packet Switching,
DNS, ARPANET, Bit, Protocol, HTML Tag, Attribute,
Document-level style, Element, Property, Value, Attribute,
Directory, Parent Folder, Home Folder, Parent Folder

Part B. Short Answers.

1. For what purpose was HTML invented?
2. Who lead the team that invented the transistor? 
3. Why is John Von Neumann important in the history of computers?  
4. What does a DNS server do?  
5. For which invention is Tim Berners-Lee noted?
6. Explain how to download an HTML file from students.depaul.edu.
7. You upload an HTML web page to the server and try
    to view it with a browser, but nothing appears. List some 
    possible reasons.  
8. Why are file permissions important for web pages displayed on 
    a server?  
9. What are the delimiting tags for an HTML page?
10. Which HTML tag denotes a linebreak? 
11. What does <strong> mean? 
12. Write code to display the web page title "My Web Page".
13. How do you make an image clickable? 
14. Which file format is best for photographs?
15. What is the term for extracting a rectangular subimage from 
    an image.
16. What items go in the head section of an HTML page?
17. What does &nbsp; mean? 

Part C.  Problems.  Show your work for each problem.

 1. How is the following HTML code displayed in the browser?
         &gt;table border=&quot;2&quot;&lt;
 2. Write an image tag that displays the image dog.jpg in the
    images folder.  The images folder is a child folder
    relative to the current folder. 
 3. Redo Problem C assuming that the images folder is a sibling
    folder, relative to the current folder. 
 4. How would you get the following text to display in a browser?
                                                            All's
                                                             well
                                                             that
                                                             ends
                                                            well. 
 5. Write an absolute address tag with link text 
    "Disney Web Site" and address "www.disney.com".
 6. Write a span tag with an inline style that displays the
    word Rumplestiltskin with these specifications:
    a) Helvetica font
    b) Dark green text color
    c) Font size 80% of normal
    d) Underlined
    e) Boldfaced
 7. Write a document-level style that sets the style for the
    each paragraph of an HTML page with these specifications:
    a) Arial font
    b) Blue text color
    c) 10 point font size
    d) Background color beige
    e) First line indented by 10 millimeters 
 8. What is displayed by the following source code in the browser?
   <table border=0>
      <tr> 
          <td>b</td> <td>r</td> <td>w</td> 
      </tr>
      <tr> 
          <td>m</td> <td>x</td> <td>u</td> 
      </tr>
      <tr> 
          <td>q</td> <td>y</td> <td>a</td> 
      </tr>
   </table>
 9. Write a document-level style that makes all table cells
    2 centimeters wide.
10. Write HTML code that places the images dog.jpg and cat.jpg
    into a table with one row. 
   
11. Redo Problem 11 with a table that places the images in one
    column.  
 
Part D: Write Hyperlinks and Image Tags

Here is the navigation architecture for Problems 1 and 2.

0 public_html
    1 a.htm
    1 b.htm
    1 c
        2 d.htm
        2 e.htm
        2 f
            3 g.htm
            3 cat.jpg 

  1. Write hyperlinks according to the following specs:

     Current Page  Target File   Hyperlink Text
     ============  ===========   ==============
     e.htm         a.htm         To Page A
     a.htm         b.htm         To Page B
     g.htm         e.htm         To Page E
     g.htm         b.htm         To Page B

  2. Write image tags according to the following specs:

     Current Page  Image File
     ============  ==========
     d.htm         cat.jpg
     g.htm         cat.jpg