Matthew Watson
Due: Friday October 5th during scheduled recitation time.
Obtain a copy of the article "An Empirical Comparison of Seven Programming
Languages" by Lutz Prechelt from _Computer_ magazine, October 2000. You
can get a copy of this magazine from the Library, or Dr. van Engelen can
provide you with one. The article gives comparisons between several
scripting languages, Java, C, and C++.
Divide the article between the team members and discuss the results shown.
Wayne Haynes
Due: Friday October 5th during scheduled recitation time.
Discuss the application of Visual Basic using excel and access.
Olufunto Ajayi
Benjamin Barrett
Due: Friday October 5th during scheduled recitation time.
Obtain a copy of the article "An Empirical Comparison of Seven Programming
Languages" by Lutz Prechelt from _Computer_ magazine, October 2000. You
can get a copy of this magazine from the Library, or Dr. van Engelen can
provide you with one. The article gives comparisons between several
scripting languages, Java, C, and C++.
Divide the article between the team members and discuss the results shown.
Due: Friday October 5th during scheduled recitation time.
Devise a test to show the efficiency increase of using CASE/SWITCH
statements as compared to using normal if-then-else statements. Provide
these results, along with an explanation of the experiment, for
discussion. Various ways can be used to show the disparity better, while
some ways would actually exaggerate or minimize the findings. Be prepared
to discuss your methodology as well.
Jean Denis
Due: Friday October 5th during scheduled recitation time.
Goto jumps are often considered to be bad features of a programming
language. Why are they considered bad? Give examples. Can these statements
be useful? And if so, how? How do languages without goto type statements,
such as Java, get around such limitations.