Fun With JavaScript: A Simple Test / Quiz Script To Demonstrate DOM Form Handling
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers:
How can I find or create a Javascript app to make an interactive online test for my students?
I want to make an interactive online test for my students at http://myenglishclass.getpowers.com… I was thinking a javascript file might be perfect, but I don’t know how to program in Java. Is there a file on the net or can someone tell me how to make one?
Making a test or quiz in JavaScript doesn’t make much sense, because you give the answers out in the code, which means all someone has to do is look at the source code of your JavaScript and he’ll have all the right answers.
True, you could obfuscate your code in an attempt to make cheating more difficult, but that requires a fairly advanced knowledge of JavaScript; at the very least, it requires the people you are testing to know less about JavaScript than you do, and that’s unlikely in a group of 30 or so teen-agers.
Nonetheless, while it’s impractical to test kids with JavaScript, it does allow us to examine how to work with form inputs via the HTML DOM (Document Object Model) and JavaScript, so let’s play!
