LAST UPDATE: 11/11/99

FIB  HINTS
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1. INTRODUCTION
2. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module I, OVERVIEW OF CYBERSPACE
3. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module II, ... COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING
4. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module III, INTERNET SERVICES
5. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module IV, TCP/IP
6. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module V, Hypermedia

        This page contains hints to some of the blanks in the Learning Modules of this course.  If you are still unsure after reading the hint, click on the anwser link and the end of each hint, ...BUT, DON'T ADMIT DEFEAT TOO SOON!  Remember that these blanks are NOT test questions (that you are trying to "get right") but "assessment" questions designed to clarify your understanding and uncover faulty learning.  DON'T TRY TO REPRODUCE WHAT YOU THINK MY ANSWER IS!   BEFORE GOING TO "TONY'S ANSWER", TRY TO COME UP WITH YOUR OWN BY LOOKING BACK OVER THE LEARNING MATERIAL PRECEDING THE BLANK.  Note that in some cases the blanks might require prerequisite knowledge that is not in the preceding material of this course or, in other cases, the prerequisite material might be far back in preceding learning modules.

1. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module I, OVERVIEW OF CYBERSPACE (Answer):
1. See SAQ OC.1.
2. What puts the word "micro" in "microcomputer"?
3. What is it that computers "run" in order to perform tasks?
4. Computers do not understand English, do they?
5. What needs to be input before a computer can process it?
6. The results of computer processing are ultimately output to who or what?
7. You don't need a hint; you need a calculator.
8. ditto
9. What is, by far, the most popular WAN in the world?
10. Reread the preceding definitions.
11. What is the abbreviation that stands for the type of network that the Internet is?
12. Reread Section 1.5.B.e.
13. Of what classification is the Internet?
14. What is the abbreviation for the protocol that governs uploading and downloading files over the Internet?
15. What kind of switching is characteristic of the Internet?
16. Change one letter in Internet and make the first character lower case rather than upper case.
17. "Shareware" is software that you pay, on an honor system, for if you use it; public domain software, in the strictest sense is free.
2. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module II, REVIEW/OVERVIEW OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING (Answer):
1. See section 2.2 of LM I.
2. ditto
3. ditto
4. ditto
5. ditto
6. ditto
7. ditto
8. ditto
9. What kind of software does the user use in the client/server module?
10. Should be obvious after #24!
3. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module III, INTERNET SERVICES (Answers):
1. See section 2.2 of LM I.
2. ditto
3. ditto
4. ditto
5. ditto
6. ditto
7. What is transferred between the Web clients and Web server?
8. In what language are Web pages written?
9. HTML are made available to surfers on what kind of server?
10. What kind of application are you using to read this?
11. Not Netscape Communicator but Netscape ___________.
12. What provides access to a specific Internet server?
13. What service is this section describing.
14. What kind of application are you using to read this?
15. The abbreviation of the preceding words.
16. "edu" are the first three letters of the answer
17. "u" stands for "university"
18. Where is the server actually stored?
19. Most links in this presentations are underlined, blue ______.
20. Besides text, what other element of an HTML document can be a link?
21. the protocol of the Web
22. Netscape Navigator is an example of this type of application.
23. Check out the HTML code of this Web page, i.e. select Page Source from the View menu.
24. ditto
25. (not used)
26. (not used)
27. (not used)
28. the specific name of a file "transfer" from a client to a server.
29. the specific name of a file "transfer" from a server to a client.
30. one of the protocols providing information retrieval
31. one of the protocols providing information retrieval
32. one of the protocols providing information retrieval
33. the "suite" of which telnet is a part
34. Netscape navigator allows you to do this.
35. You do this when you copy a Web page on to secondary storage of your PC.
36. Check out the preceding link!
37. Check out the preceding link!
38. Check out the preceding link!
39. Check out the preceding link!
40. Check out the preceding link!
41. This should be very well known to you by now!
42. What is the full name of the computer in your class e-mail address?
43. the largest kind of network, of which the Internet is an example
4. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module IV, ...TCP/IP, PROTOCOLS, and OSI MODEL (Answers):
1. Check out the reference; what does "I" in "IP" stand for?
2. What is a the client that provides Web access?
3. What service is provided by the Web; see LM I, section 2.2.
4. The user uses __________ software to access a network service.
5. The service mentioned in the preceding hint is provided a _______.
6. What does "TC" of "TCP" stand for?
7. What does "IP" stand for?
8. TCP is concerns only the sender and receiver, but ____ governs node-to-node transmission over the whole network.
9. Did you read the preceding section?
5. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module V: HYPERMEDIA (Answers):
1. All Windows program files have this three-letter extension.
2. Older pure text files are encoded using this.
3. Microsoft Word files have this three-letter extension.
4. "x" is the second letter of the Microsoft Office application.
5. The most common O.S. for PCs.
6. Think! How many distinct colors (distinct numbers) can be represented with one byte (eight bits)?
7. What would be a three-letter abbreviation of .jpeg?
8. The other graphic format
9. individual picture elements
10. Computer images are digital; real world images are ___________.
11. obvious!
12. See section 4.B  of LM IV.
6. Hints for FIBs in Learning Module VI: WEB PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (Answers):
1. What are the software programs we use every day called?
2. What is the only "language" a computer understands?
3. The instruction set is actually created in the design of this computer chip.
4. What is the title of the current section?
5. The conceptual steps that specify how to accomplish a task are called what?
6. What are used to "mark up" the text in HTML?
7. Browsers do not have a built-in ability to handle all the different kinds of data files, but they have the ability to add a _______ to do this.
8. See FIB 6.
9. What client software is normally used to display HTML documents?
10. From the most general viewpoint a document is _____ produced by a specific application program.
11. Look a the bold words in item 2.A.c. The key word is "independent".
12. Look a the bold words in item 2.A.c. Programs that can run on all kinds of hardware are ___________.
13. Look a the bold words in item 2.A.c. Output that can be converted for any type of display is ___________.
14. Look a the bold words in item 2.A.c. If everyone uses the same rules, you have _______________.
15. You should certainly know this by now!
16. Graphics, video, and audio are collectively called what?
17. If new words (commands) can be added to a computer language it is ____________.  (Look at the name, XML.)
18. What hold the values that specify the current state of an object?
19. What defines the behavior of an object?
20. What kind of object would a car be a special case of?
21. What specifies the things that an object consists of?
22. The unique feature of Java defined in section 3.B.
23. This kind of code is characteristic of Java and virtually unique among popular software development languages.
24. All source code must ultimately be translated to _______ code even if there is middleware such as the bytecode of Java.
25. See FIB 11.
26. The abstract CPU that bytecode runs on.
27. The mini-applications unique to Java.
28. Scripts, by definition, are placed within the _____ code that produces a Web page.