Quiz 1 Information

Material covered

The quiz will focus on the material that we have discussed in class during the first part of the course. These topics include:

• The Internet and the WWW
• HTTP requests and responses
• Defining the full Stack application
• Model-view-controller applications
• Fundamentals of Django: URLs, views, and templates
• Form processing: reading form fields into Python

Quiz details

• The quiz will be held in class on Thursday 9/26 during our usual classroom. You will have 30 minutes to complete the quiz. The remaining time after the quiz will be workshop time to work on assignment 4.

• The quiz will be a paper quiz, in which you will hand-write your responses. Each question will be a short-answer format; you should write complete sentences (not bullet points), approximate 4-5 sentences about about 75-100 words per response.

• The quiz will be closed notes/closed books. You may not use any PowerPoint slides, examples, assignments, webpages, or other electronic devices/resources during the quiz.

Sample Questions

The following sample questions are provided to give you an idea about how the questions will be posed, but this is NOT a complete or sufficient study guide.

1. Explain the difference between the Internet and the World-Wide Web.

2. Identify and explain the key inventions that make the World-Wide-Web possible.

3. Explain the main elements of an HTTP Request and an HTTP Response.

4. Identify and explain the most common HTTP response codes: 200, 401, and 404.

5. Briefly explain the model-view-controller (MVC) application architecture.

6. Define a “Full stack” web application.

7. What is a web application framework, and why would a developer use one?

8. Explain these elements of a Django application: URLs, vies, and templates.