CSCE Z102 - Fall 2008

What every college student needs to know by Catherine Matthews

Reading Assignments and Potential Quiz questions

By Monday, Oct. 27th:
Read Chapter 2 in text.
      Questions: p23 3, 4; p27 1; p38 3, 4; p47 1, 3, 5; p51 Ex. 3, 8.
Read Chapter 3 in text.
      Questions: p60 1, 2; p69 2, 3, 4; p72 1; p74 1; p77 2; p80 Ex. 6, 8.
Note: the text has errors on pages 65 and 71.
    For font-variant the property may be set to small-caps or normal (not none as in the text).
    The book makes this same mistake on the top of page 71.
    Also, page 65, middle of the page in the code block, it should be "small-caps" instead of "smallcaps" in that last line of code.

By Monday, Nov. 3rd:
Read Chapter 4 in text.
      Questions: p86 1, 2, 3; p90 2; p95 1; p101 1, 2, 3; p105 Ex. 7, 9.
Read Chapter 5 in text.
      Questions: p117 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; p128 1, 4; p132 1, 3, 4.

Wednesday, Nov. 5th - Test 1

Review for Test 1



By Monday, Nov. 10th:
Read Chapter 6 in text.
      Questions: p151 2; p155 3; p168 1, 2, 3; p169 1; p174 Ex. 9, 10.

By Monday, Nov. 17th:
Read Chapter 7 in text.
      Questions: p186 2, 3; p188 3 (be able to explain part 2 of question); p192 2; p199 1. p205 2, 3.

Note: you my ignore "Making a web page safe for non-javascript browsers" on p198, up to the questions on p199.

Read Chapter 8 in text.
      Questions: p228 1, 2, 3; p238 Ex. 8.


By Monday, Nov 24th:
Read Chapter 9 up to page 254.
You may skip the part from 254 to end of chapter on image rollovers if you wish. I will go over a different way to do these in class.
Image Rollover Example
Declaring and calling functions example
Function with parameter example

Note: the text has some errors on pages 229-235.
  1. We will not be using bgcolor or fgcolor (these cause problems with cascading style sheets). I will explain what we will be using in class on Tuesday.
  2. The URL and title properties are not read-only as the book states. You can modify these if you wish.
Monday, Nov. 24th - Test 2

Review for Test 2



Wednesday, Nov. 26th - Thanksgiving Holiday(No class)



By Monday, Dec. 1st:
Read Chapter 10 up to page 279.
      Questions: p278 1, 2; p294 Ex. 2, 3.

Read Chapter 11.
      Questions: p308 1, 2, 3; p315 1, 2, 3; p323 Ex. 2, 3, 4, 6.
      Questions: p308 1, 2, 3; p315 1, 2, 3; p323 Ex. 2, 3, 4, 6.
Arithmetic with variables in JavaScript
Arithmetic with text boxes using functions and parseFloat()

Note: page 327 is wrong. If you're looking at the lab exercises at the end of the chapters, talk to me and I'll give you a fixed version of the code on page 327.


By Monday, Dec. 8th:
Read Chapter 12, pages 329-341.
      Questions: p341 1, 2.
Read Chapter 12, pages 341-359.
      Questions: p346 1, 2; p 349 1, 2; p359 1, 2.
Read Chapter 13, pages 379-385.

Note: if you are using chapter 13 as an example of how to implement a slide show, there are a few errors in the book. On page 380 and 383, you need to remove the line:

if(document.images == true){

and the associated closing } for the code to work.
Corrected Slideshow Example

Read Chapter 14, pages 391-403.

Creating and Using Radio Buttons
Creating and Using Check Boxes


Wednesday, Dec. 10th - Final Exam

Review for Final Exam



Labs

Lab 1 (due Oct. 27th)
Lab 2 (due Nov. 3rd)
Lab 3 (due Nov. 10th)
Lab 4 (due Nov. 19th)
Lab 5 (due Dec. 1st) - Project proposal also due
Lab 6 (due Dec. 8st)

Project

Project Proposal - Due Nov. 24th
Project - Due Dec. 8th