Final Exam

IMPORTANT! In case you missed the previous posting, our final exam period is now at 7am next Monday, December 8th. There should be no conflicts with other exams, so make sure you are in attendance or you WILL BE PENALIZED! Also, please post your project URLs as a comment in the post that follows this.

Fall 2008 DIG3716_01 Internet Interaction
Assigned: December 3, 2008
Due: December 8, 2008 by midnight

Send your answers back in an email directly to <my>.<name> @ gmail.com. Be sure to include your name at the top of your response, and please send everything, both questions and answers, in the body of the email itself. Finally, make sure DIG3716 Final both appear in the email subject.

Please be sure to work on your finals alone, NOT WITH A PARTNER. If I find identical or similar enough code, including any code copied completely out of a reference, I will give all parties involved an automatic 0 for the final exam grade.

Total Points: 50

1) A fellow student comes to you asking for your learned opinion on web coding. Their dilemma is whether to use HTML/Javascript or MXML/Actionscript (Flex) to fulfill their particular web coding needs on a project. Describe a scenario where one or the other technology would be more appropriate and why. Be sure to cite at least three differences between the technologies that inform your decision. (10 points)

2) What’s the last non-school-related book you read? (2 points)

3) Write some XHTML that would use the following style: div.para #title { font-size: 16; } (4 points)

4) Explain what “Bindable” means in Flex. Include any necessary syntax. (4 points)

5) Write a function in Javascript that will generate an “alien” month as an HTML table. This alien month will contain a different number of days based on a variable that is passed in (see below) and should consist of weeks containing 10 days each. For simplicity, you can assume that the month will always start on the first day of the week. (10 points)

For example, the following would be generated by calling function alienMonth(28):

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28

6) Write a simple MXML document that shows two text input fields on the left side of the application, a button, and another two text input fields on the right side. When the button is clicked, data from the two fields on the left should appear in the two fields on the right. Note, though you can attach the resulting SWF file, I am far more intersted in your MXML file. (10 points)

7) Write a short, well-formed XML file for your video game collection. Each game element should have at a minimum 3 child elements describing whatever property of the game you want, and you should list a minimum of 3 video games. Once this is done, write an XSL file that will style it into an HTML table. Provide both XML and XSL files. (10 points)