FinalExamInfo.md



Final Exam Friday, July 8th, 2022 8:30 AM EST - 10:30 AM EST

Details

Duration - 120 minutes, starting during our scheduled class meeting time 8:30 AM EST and ending at 10:30 AM EST in our normal lecture room.
closed book,notes, browser, etc. - do not consult with anyone during the exam.


Format
Format (possibilities):

short answer
multiple choice
true/false
code analysis/completing code snippets
coding


Suggested Topics to review

HTML5 (https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp)


tags discussed in class/code examples (table, list, a, form, input, div, h's, script, body, head, span, fieldset, ...etc.)
associated attributes for each tag element listed above
forms, lists (ordered and unordered), tables
DOM (what is it?)
attaching events/handlers to elements in a web page
data validation
box model
default behavior


CSS (https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp)


class/id selectors
child/ancestor selectors
rule definitions


Javascript


variable declaration
var,let,const (how are they different from one another)
variable scopes
function declaration
call, bind, apply
javascript objects
seal, freeze
arrays
map, reduce, filter, sort, find
spread/rest operator
array/object destructuring
arrow functions

this , function execution context
template literals
ES6 Classes and Inheritance
modules
promises
async await
webAPI (document.querySelector, etc...) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

different ways javascript interacts with a web page
the javascript Event loop and the order in which asynchronous code gets executed in Javascript


React


class component declaration (be able to write your own component)
ReactDOM.render()
JSX (https://reactjs.org/docs/jsx-in-depth.html)
state
props
component lifecycle Methods
lifting state from child to parent
fetch - what it is and how we used it
data validation on the client


Node/Express/API


"proper" layout of an express api
app.js
middleware - what is it and how does it get invoked and where
flow of middleware - what are the parameters it takes
what triggers the end of the request-response transaction
mongoose/schema what role ORM's play in our application stack
HTTP verbs we discussed (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) what actions they correspond to, what the request gets attached to
diffence between url params and query params (where are they placed in the request)

Suggestions:

review the tic-tac-toe tutorial on the React website (https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html)
review projects/exercises
go over the midterm
api examples

Note: This is a suggested listed but by no means necessarily a complete list of topics for the final exam.

Topics not included on the exam

git
text editors
postman
curl