Parallel Implementations
ITECH5403
- Assignment 2 – Parallel Implementations
Assignment Overview
You
are tasked with creating a program for a pizza shop – however, as this is a
comparative languages course, you will be creating the same application in the
following programming languages:
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C,
· Python,
· Java
and
· Lisp.
As
you implement the application in each language, you should keep notes on the
features of the languages used, which you found useful, as well as any issues
or complications which arose due to the complexity or lack of any language
features. A brief discussion based on these programming features for each
individual language accompanying each implementation is required. Finally, a
comparative overview of the languages highlighting applicability based on your
experience in the design, implementation and debugging of your code is also
required.
If
you foresee or encounter any complications, you may opt to implement or
incorporate additional language features which may be lacking, i.e. data
structures. This can be done via:
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Your
own implementation,
· Through
libraries, or
· Via
the incorporation of existing source code. You can use code found on the
Internet, but use of any existing code must
be referenced.
Program Specification
Users may order one or more pizzas,
where each pizza may be either: small,
medium or large.
Small pizzas cost $5, medium pizzas cost $8
and large pizzas cost $12.
All
pizzas come on a tomato base (for our
pizza shop, this will be the only option), and will have the topping cheese by default, at no extra cost.
Users may choose up to a maximum of four additional toppings (bringing the total to five) from the following
list, where each topping adds an additional $1 to the price of the pizza:
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Bacon,
· Olives,
· Ham,
· Mushrooms,
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Pineapple,
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Salami,
·
Anchovies.
A
pizza order consists of an order for one or more pizzas, where each pizza has a
size, and may optionally include a list of up to four additional toppings.
Each pizza order must be marked as
either to be collected or to be delivered.
If the pizza is to be collected then the
order requires a name and a phone number to be valid.
If
the pizza is to be delivered then a name,
phone number and address are required to be valid. In
addition, if the order total is less than $30 then an $8 delivery fee is added
to the total.
The
application must be error tolerant and capable of accepting keyboard input to
store a number of pizza orders in memory (they do not have to be persisted to
file), as well as displaying an order summary which include details of all
orders, including:
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The
details of each pizza in the order,
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The
total cost of the order, and
·
The
name, phone number and (if required) address of the person who made the order.
Suggested Development Environments
Codeblocks
for C '99
Code::Blocks can be downloaded from: http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/binaries
To create a new C
project is: When you create a project, choose File | New and then Console
Application, and then choose C
as the programming language.
IDLE
for Python
Python, including the IDLE development
environment can be downloaded from:
Eclipse
for Java 7 or Java 8
Eclipse may be freely downloaded from: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Eclipse does not come with the Java JDK,
which must the downloaded separately from:
Ensure
that your Eclipse type and Java type match – i.e. 32-bit Java for 32-bit
Eclipse, or 64-bit Java for 64-bit Eclipse. If you mix and match it won't work.
GNU
CLisp for Common Lisp
CLISP 2.49 can be sourced from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/clisp/files/latest/download
Any good text editor would be suitable
for writing the source code.
Additional
Documentation – Language Suitability Report
The
design of each programming language incorporates a number of decisions about
the language which make it more or less suitable for given tasks. During your
implementation of the pizza program in each of the languages you should make
notes about the language features which exist or do not exist, and which have
therefore made program development easier or more difficult.
Where
a language has not provided a feature which would have been useful to the
implementation of the program, or where the complexity of using a language
feature has been high you should remark upon it and briefly discuss a mechanism
or feature of another language which would have made development easier.
After
completing the application in all languages (or as many as you can), discuss
the comparative ease of implementation in terms of the design, implementation
and debugging for each programming language, including how robustness issues
were addressed.
Submission and Marking Process
You
must supply your program source code files and language suitability report
documentation in as single compressed archive called:
ITECH5403_Assignment_2_<YOUR-NAME>_<YOUR-STUDENT-ID>.zip
You
may supply your programming language suitability report in either Word or
LibreOffice/OpenOffice format in which the document can be edited – no
proprietary Mac specific formats, please.
Assignments
will be marked on the basis of fulfilment of the requirements and the quality of
the work. In addition to the marking criteria, marks may be deducted for
failure to comply with the assignment requirements, including (but not limited
to):
·
Incomplete
implementation(s), and
· Incomplete
submissions (e.g. missing files), and
· Poor
spelling and grammar.
Submit
your assignment (all program source files plus your discussion document) to the
Assignment 2 Upload location on Moodle before the deadline of Friday of Week 11
at 4pm.
The mark distribution for this
assignment is explained on the next page.
Assignment 2 – Parallel Implementations
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Implementation
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data (i.e. program expects a
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Discussion on
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Python Standard library,
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lists
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Documentation
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implement /
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addressed.
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Spelling
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Assignment mark
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