PBD Student Challenge

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Student Challenge

This is a short quiz to make sure you have the fundamentals in place to apply for our position. Please email your answers to pbdwebmaster@lbl.gov when finished. This shouldn't take you longer than 20 minutes.

Just a few guidelines:

• Take into consideration both functionality and style.
• Any code written should be in PHP or Ruby, unless noted otherwise.
• Any written answer should be no more than 4 sentences.

1. What tags in the following HTML may produce unexpected behavior in Internet Explorer 8 unless properly handled? Why does this happen?

    <article>
        <p>Lorem Ipsum, this is the introduciton to PBD</p>
        <figure>
            <img src="ipsum.jpg">
        </figure>
    </article>
   

2. What does the jQuery code below do? (assume the corresponding html is in place to function normally)

    $("#labs").on("click", ".lab", function() {
        alert("Better call Saul!");  
    });
   

3. What is wrong, if anything, with the following HTML from a stylistic perspective?

    <a href="#" onclick="function(){alert("Yeah, science!");}">
   

4. Write code that will take the following JSON and print out the corresponding HTMl Table

    { "scientists": 
      [
        { "first_name": "Walter", "last_name": "White",   "profession": "Chemist"},
        { "first_name": "Jessie", "last_name": "Pinkman", "profession": "Cook"},
        { "first_name": "Skyler", "last_name": "White",   "profession": "Accountant"}
     ]
    }
   

5. Include links to any work you have live on the web and/or your github account