WEEK 1
Due Monday 30th September
Gant Willie J 3rd.
Discuss Cobol in business programming
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.)?
Study of programming language: Java, C/C++.
Discuss
Fortran in scientific programming
Discuss
the use of program languages in bioinformatics.
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.
Discuss the application of Scheme programming for Artificial Intelligence.
Explain the different aspects of the cost such as money, run time of a
programming language.
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.