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FinalExam_StudyGuide

• Any question from Exam 1 and 2
• Any topic from Exam 1 or 2 Study guide
• Advanced Functions topics
  • Functions are objects with the additional special capability of being invoked
  • Functions can be passed to functions as arguments
  • Callback functions
• AJAX

Some questions to ponder:

• What does javaScript ( or programming in general) bring to Web Programming?
• How do we get information we process in JavaScript to the web page?
• How is JavaScript used to usher information back and forth between the user and the server?
• What is meant by Flow of control and what structures does JavaScript possess to achieve this?
  • if statements
  • if/else statements
  • for loops
  • while loops
  • Be able to convert between nested if statements to if/else
  • Be able to convert between for and while loops with given examples

General Thoughts

• Know relational operators
• Know conditional operators
• Know that functions can be a conditonal (if an if statement for example) as long as it returns a boolean
• Know global vs local scope for variables
• Events and Event handlers (know how to write them)
• HTML to DOM
• DOM to HTML