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The mid term will be next week, Oct. 11.  the length for the exam will be 2 hours.  Open books and open notes, but no access to computers or internet. The exam will have some multiple choices questions and some coding problem set. The coding problems set will be in the form of some program description, segment of codes given, and you will be asked to fill in some blanks. 

To prepare for the mid term, your should go over the following (in the order of importance for your preparation):

  •  The teaching notes and make sure you understand the contents.

  • Studying the first three assignments will also help to the coding problem set.

  • For the textbook coverage, study pp. 1~325, but study my lectures, teaching notes, and assignments first. 

 

Some key concepts that will be tested include but not limited to the following:

 

  • Event driven programming

  • View State

  • PostBack

  • Web server controls

  • CType function

  • Exception handling with Try..End Try construct

  • HTML table tag and hypertext link tag syntax

  • How to pass data via querystring

  • Database retrieval and formatting its results in HTML format

  • Parameter SQL

  • Traditional form handling (related to my lecture and assignment 3)

  • Oct. 4 lecture: Stored procedures and SQL server plus User control