Exam 2: The Javascript Language

In 1989, ____ developed Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which became the language of the modern Internet, and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which specified how communication should take place.

JavaScript is considered an interpreted language because it is interpreted by a Web browser.

In the early 1990s, search tools with the names Archie, Gopher, Veronica, and Jughead established the use of ____, which made it possible to click a text link and retrieve a document from another location in the vast Internet resources known as "cyberspace."

Named constants should be used when they serve to improve readability and understanding.

In pseudocode, the keyword Display is followed by the text expression. In JavaScript, the document.write is followed by the text expression in parentheses, and a semicolon is placed at the end of the statement.

A principle of XHTML is that it contains the content of data and leaves the formatting specifics to external documents, such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

If a(n) ____ program contains a syntax error it usually just halts or crashes.

With a(n) ____ the editor, compiler, and executer are combined in the same application.

A(n) ____ is one that does not run as a separate (stand-alone) program.

Fourth-generation languages are "application specific"-that is, they are tied to an application such as a database or a report writer.

Which of the following is considered a second generation language?

The Web browser on the user's computer that receives Web pages is called the ____.

Mosaic was released in 1995, Netscape Navigator in 2000, and Microsoft Internet Explorer in 2002.

The syntax of the assignment statement that calls the prompt() function is ____.

4GLs are associated with visual interfaces and natural languages in some definitions.

JavaScript, like most full programming languages, requires the declaration of a data type.

____ focus less on a program's procedures and more on the objects (or things) on which these procedures operate.

XHTML includes the capability of ____ code, meaning it can be checked for correctness.

Programs translated and executed line by line from the source code are said to be ____.

Based on the code below, which of the following is the empty string? // prompt for employee's last name Var lastName = prompt("Enter the employee's last name:","");