WEEK 1

Due Monday 30th September

 

Gant Willie J 3rd. 

Discuss Cobol in business programming

 

Dolbee Dawn A

Research the various heap allocation algorithms, such as first fit, best-fit, the Buddy System, Fibonacci heap, etc. Discuss their pros and cons. When would certain algorithms be better than others (words being of uniform size, having an abundance of small objects and a few large, having many small, having many large, etc.)?

 

Carreras Sebastian &

Loiseau Raymond F

Study of programming language: Java, C/C++.

 

Faw Micha A

Discuss Fortran in scientific programming

 

Lewandowski Mark E

Discuss the use of program languages in bioinformatics.

 

Ahir Ajay T

Discuss the impact of programming style on the performance of Scheme

programs, eg. recursion or loops, "if-then" or "cond", using assignment or

not using it.

 

Batcher Race L

Discuss the application of Scheme programming for Artificial Intelligence.

 

Hicks Ryan S

Explain the different aspects of the cost such as money, run time of a

programming language.

 

Purohit Naresh

Discuss the way Pascal, non-ISO C, ISO C, and Java handle if-then-else

conditional nestings. Delineate the pros and cons from the user and

Compiler perspective.