The official web page for this course is http://www.austincc.edu/baldwin/Fall09/Itse1356WebPage/ITSE1356.htm.
Online study guides are available to help you to prepare for the exams. Study guides for the tutorials can be accessed by clicking on the following links:
All eight study guides are very useful. However, the first five are more useful than the last three. Each study guide is an interactive testing program. If you answer questions in the study guide and then ask the study guide to "Check Your Work" it will provide the correct answer for each question along with the page number in the textbook on which the topic is discussed.
Oops
The questions in the study guide are based on a test bank provided to instructors by the textbook publisher. Unfortunately, the textbook publisher neglected to update the test bank for Tutorials 6, 7, and 8 to reflect the correct page numbers for the second edition of the textbook. The page numbers reported by the study guide for those three tutorials appear to be based on the page numbering scheme for the first edition, which is completely different from the page numbering scheme for the second edition.
A workaround
Fortunately, it is possible to at least approximately correlate between the two editions manually. For example, the reference for question 15 in the study guide for Tutorial 6 is page 6.9. The topic on which question 15 is based in discussed on the ninth page of Tutorial 6 in the second edition textbook, which is actually page 305. This approach to correlating the references provided by the study guide to the actual page numbers in the second edition textbook should at least get you in the ballpark.
Using the study guides to study the textbook
For those of you who already have some knowledge of XML, one way to study the textbook is to complete the study guide for each Tutorial in the textbook before you begin studying that Tutorial. If you don't know the answer to a question, leave it blank. (Don't guess at the answer.)
Then ask the study guide to check your work. Use the page references provided by the study guide for unanswered or incorrectly answered questions to highlight topics in the textbook that require more study on your part. After that, you can concentrate on the highlighted topics while studying the Tutorial in the textbook. Of course, before moving on to the next tutorial, you should be able to correctly answer all of the questions for the current Tutorial.
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File: ITSE1356StudyGuideIndex.htm