General information about presentations:

· Attendance will be taken at the recitations

· Duration of presentations is10 minutes.

· If there are 2 people giving a presentation then both of them have to talk for 10 minutes each.

· You are responsible for looking up the schedule and making sure that you are prepared for your presentations when they are due.

· No changes can be made in the schedule, unless you have an emergency. (Exams do not count as emergencies)

Section 1

Time: 8:00 AM

RUBENSTEIN ERIC S & STANOVICH MARK J

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. Each person will speak for 10 minutes.

FUKUHARA NOBUYASU

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.

Section 2

Time: 9:05 AM

CONNOR MICHAEL F

The C language has three storage classes, called automatic, extern, and static. These

determine whether and how memory is allocated for variables and/or determine the

visibility of entities.

· Discuss the storage classes

· Discuss the use of "auto", "extern", "static" for global variables

· Discuss the use of "auto", "extern", "static" for local variables of a

function. How is this different from the use of these storage classes for

globals?

Discuss separate compilation and linking in C (with emphasis on using "static" and "extern")

HAURUS NICHOLAS J & MARTIN SHAUN R

Study of programming language: Java, C/C++. Each person will speak for 10 minutes.

ARNOLD NICHOLAS L

Discuss the use of recursion in terms of efficiency, maintainability, writability, etc. In which cases is recursive programming good, and in which cases is it bad? Fortran does not allow recursion. What effect does this have on programming those algorithms that are best handled by recursion? (Are there situations in which Fortran cannot handle a certain task because of its lack of recursion?)?

Section 3

Time: 11:15 AM

CHUNG SONG J

Discuss the use of recursion in terms of efficiency, maintainability, writability, etc. In which cases is recursive programming good, and in which cases is it bad? Fortran does not allow recursion. What effect does this have on programming those things that are best handled by recursion (are there situations in which Fortran cannot handle a certain task because of its lack of recursion?)?

LICURSI ANTHONY R

Discuss the impact of programming style on the performance of Scheme, eg. recursion or loops, "if-then" or "cond", using assignment or not using it.

ALLEN CHRISTOPHER T & VERA LOUIS R

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.

Each person will speak for 10 minutes.