Assignment title: Information
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
RESEARCH PAPER
Description:
Your document for this project will be submitted to WebCT (Assignment 2)
in one of the following file formats: ASCII, MS Word, or PDF
This research paper will be evaluated on the content and clarity of each
area as well as the effectiveness, organization and planning. Factors
affecting the evaluation process include the purpose, significance, merit of
the investigation, focus, depth and flow.
Research Area:
Programming Language types:
Imperative
Object-oriented
Functional
Declarative
Your are a research scientist at a large software company and have been
asked to provide current research (2 years or less) on one of the above
listed programming languages type. Your goal is to provide research in the
latest changes, direction, and activity of your language type.
Your paper must include a well-defined direction and review of the
influential research in the subject area. The paper must be between 12-
15 pages and include a minimum of 10 citations. Each citation in the paper
must appear in the reference list. Use proper journals such as IEEE and
ACM. You may use trade publications, No web references, and No book
references (unless the TextBook for the course).
Form and Style.
Your paper should pay close attention to maintaining a consistent flow and
depth. The document must be well written and should be proofread for
detail and accuracy. The paper should follow the basic framework for a
scientific paper should answer the following questions:
What is the Problem?
What is the goal of the paper?
What were the results (research findings) ? What are your conclusions?
What is the future research work?
Further definition of structure might be:
1) Define the problem.
2) State your goal.
3) Why are these works significant and relevant? 4) Show current research
and current direction. 5) Conclusion
6) Future work or investigations.
References and Citation:
Follow the APA guidelines for references and citations.