FIU Programming Intended Use Discussion

Introduction:

• Our Class Project 1 has the goal of comparing several programming languages and paradigms, especially regarding writability, readability, running and reasoning. Emphasis is given to design, evaluation and implementation.
• This project is individual, but collaboration is encouraged.
• Choose a programming language to write the report. Any programming language is permitted, except Java.

The same language chosen in this project will also be the one used for Class Project 2; therefore, please choose a programming language according to your preference.

Deliverables:

After choosing a programming language of your preference, write a report on the following topics about this language:

1. Intended Use
2. Who uses it in industry today?
3. Supported Paradigms (Imperative, object-oriented, functional, procedural, hybrid, etc.)
4. Expressiveness
5. Benchmarks
6. Garbage Collection
7. Exception Handling
8. Multithreading
9. Static vs Dynamic Typing
10. Method Overloading
11. Higher Order Functions Capabilities
12. Curiosities (Use your judgement here)

Format:

• 1 inch margins (left and right)
• 1.5 inch margins (top and bottom)
• 12 point times font for the main text, and use 10 point courier font for computer code
• Single space your text
• Make the text fully-justified
• Your paper should be 6 pages long
• Having either 5 or 7 pages is fine, as long as the content is goodAnything 8 pages or longer or shorter than 5 will not be graded
• Use your judgement for other situations

Good luck!