<xml: “from swimmingly to drowning(ly)”>
a few days after my first test, my teacher emailed me my grade: i got a 98. i wrote to her asking what the class average was to find out if i should really be impressed with myself or not, and she wrote back again: you got the highest grade in the class. woot! it always feels good to get a good grade.
but last night i had another test, which i know already, i didn’t do to well on. i think i’ll end up with mid-70’s at best. i studied a fair amount, but that highest grade in the class the first time around, kinda bumped me off my rock of motivation. now i know i’ll be studying reeeeal hard for the final. the test was on two chapters: namespaces and css. for posterity’s sake, i’m going to write down everything i think i got wrong (hopefully this’ll help me refrain from making the same mistakes in the future):
- in CSS, declare that the text of the “AUTHOR” element is capitalized: (should have written: AUTHOR {text-transform: capitalize}
- write a schema for the following xml doc in “russian doll” format (i was totally unprepared to write in “russian doll”. since we covered “russian doll” early in the chapter and “venetian blind” and “flat catalog” later in the chapter, i focussed on the later formats for writing schemas; i think i lost a lot of points on this one…
- also in the above problem (i forgot to declare the ISBN attribute as an ID data type (thus ensuring each ID holds a unique value)
we’ll see what else i missed (all the stuff that i can’t remember) when i get the test back in a few days
