CSC 121: Computers and Scientific Thinking
Fall 2020

Test 1 Review

Mon, Sep 14
9:30 - 10:30 (CDT)
  • The test will be conducted remotely via Blueline.
  • It is closed-book, closed-notes, and you will be required to have a camera on during the test.
Types of questions
  • factual knowledge: TRUE/FALSE, multiple choice
  • conceptual understanding: short answer, discussion
  • synthesis and application: describe/modify HTML page
  • Sample test
Study advice
  • review PowerPoint slides and/or lecture recordings (if not mentioned in class, won't be on test)
  • reread book chapters and chapter summaries
  • look over chapter exercises & projects, review questions
  • reference other sources for examples, different perspectives
Course Material Computer Basics hardware vs. software von Neumann architecture: CPU + memory + I/O bits, bytes operating system The Web Web development & growth, World Wide Web Consortium key ideas: hypertext, Web server, Web browser, search engines Web protocols: HTTP, HTML caching, cookies The Internet ARPANet development & growth, Internet of Things, Internet Society key ideas: distributed network, packet-switching Internet protocols: TCP, IP IP addresses, domain name servers Applications in Biology impacts of computers: new research tools, computer models, data storage/processing/analysis bioinformatics: use of CS techniques to solve biological problems e.g., GenBank public repository of DNA and RNA sequence data HTML & the Web structural elements: !DOCTYPE, HTML, HEAD, BODY, <!-- --> text layout: P, BR, &nbsp; headings: H1, H2, ..., H6, HR font formatting: B, I, U, SUP, SUB STYLE attribute color properties: COLOR, BACKGROUND-COLOR font properties: FONT-FAMILY, FONT-SIZE alignment properties: TEXT-ALIGN, TEXT-INDENT, MARGIN-LEFT, MARGIN-RIGHT HTML & Hypertext hyperlinks: A tag; HREF, TARGET attributes images: IMG tag; SRC, ALT, HEIGHT, WIDTH attributes lists: UL, OL, LI tags; LIST-STYLE-TYPE style property tables: TABLE, TR, TD tags; BORDER style property