MIS 216: Test - Study Guide

The test will be Friday, September 25 during our normal class time.
It will be a combination of multiple choice and short answers from Chapters 1 to 4 and our 5 Projects.
In addition there will be one small 'handson' project

Recommend you review the 3 in-class homeworks we completed

Chapter 1 - Overview

• Three to four basic operations of programs/applications?
• What is a program?
• What development language do we use for this class?
• What IDE (Integrated Development Language) do we use for this class?
  
• What are the three basic objects we learned in Chapter 1?
• What is the naming convention (prefix) for these objects?
• What is a method?
• What is an event handler?
• What are the basic 4 steps we have discussed to follow under a Calculate/Submit Button
• What are the math operators?
• What is the hierachy of math operators?

Chapters 1/2 - Data Types

• What is a variable
• How do you declare a variable
• What are the common variable types and their prefixes
• What is the purpose of a constant
• Understand the use of substring, convert to, parse
• How would you format a number as currency in the label?

Chapter 3 - Decision Structures / Validation

• Describe the basic structure of an IF statement
• Explain the 'true' versus 'false' case to determine which statements are executed?
• Understand the use of mulitple IF's to determine which statement(s) are executed?
• Understand the use of AND's and OR's in an IF statement
• What are the symbols for AND, OR, NOT
• Purpose and use of the SWITCH command
• Purpose and implementation of validation commans

Chapter 4 - Loops

• Basics of a WHILE loop statement
• Basics of a DO loop statement
• Understand the use of counters and incrementing counters (where)

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