Cork Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computing - Stage 2 (Fulltime and ACCS)
(KCOMP_7_Y2)(KCOME_7_Y2)
Summer 2008
Internet Studies & Web Design
(Time: 3 Hours)
Instructions
Answer Question 1 AND THREE OTHER
questions
All questions carry equal marks.
Examiners: Mr. C.E. Manning
Ms. M. Meagher
Ms. A. Brown
Q1. (25 marks)
Belguimshop.be stores each vistor’s first name and postcode in a cookie. Write a JavaScript
program that greets the user by name in their native language. You may assume that the cookies
were stored on a previouos visit and have not yet expired.
The name is stored in a cookie called nom and the 4-digit post code is stored in a cookie called
postcode. Residents of postcodes in the range from 0000 to 5999 are French speaking and cusomers
with post codes ranging from 6000 to 9999 are Flemish speaking.
When the page is loaded it should greet the user with either Bienvenue or Welkom.
Eg. Bienvenue Jaques
Eg. Welkom Jan
Q2. (25 marks)
Part A (20 marks)
In Spain the DNI comprises 8 digits and a checksum letter. If the result of a mod 23 of the numeric
part of the number is n, then the checksum is the nth character of the string
“TRWAGMYFPDXBNJZSQVHLCKE”. 0 -> T. 1 -> R. And so on.
Write a JavaScript function that takes an otherwise correctly formatted string and evaluates to true if
the checksum is valid and false otherwise.
Part B (5 marks)
The designers of this scheme did not use the first 23 letters of the alphabet. Some letters were
skipped. Why?
