ITECH5403 – Comparative Programming Languages School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 1 of 7 ITECH5403 - Assignment 2 – Parallel Implementations Due Date: 5pm, Friday of Week 11 This assignment will test your skills in programming applications to specification in a number of different programming languages, and is worth 20% of your non-invigilated (type A) marks for this course. Assignment Overview You are tasked with creating a text-based program for taking orders at a roast dinner shop – however, as this is a comparative languages course, you will be creating the same application in the following four programming languages:  C or C++ (you may choose either of these),  Python,  Java, and  Lisp or Perl (you may choose either of these). 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 how they were suitable or not suitable for the creating this type of application is also required. It is recommended that the first application you write is in the programming language which is most familiar to you, which will help you to have a working 'template' for taking orders - which you can then translate into the other programming languages. Program Specification Users may order one or more Roast Dinners, where each dinner may be either: medium, large or extra large. Medium dinners cost $10, large dinners cost $15 and extra large dinners cost $20. Medium dinners come with one serve of meat (beef, chicken or pork) and two sides / vegetables. Large dinners come with one serve of meat (beef, chicken or pork) and three sides / vegetables. Extra large dinners come with two serves of meat (these may be different, or the customer may choose two serves of the same meat i.e. one serve of beef and one serve or chicken is fine, and so is two serves of pork etc.) and come with four sides / vegetables. Figure 1 - A Roast Dinner with roast beef, roasted potatoes, carrots, peas and Yorkshire Pudding with gravy. ITECH5403 – Comparative Programming Languages School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 2 of 7 Customers may choose to order any of the following sides / vegetables: - Roast potatoes - Carrots - Peas - Yorkshire pudding - Gravy, and - Broccoli. Customers may choose from the following meats: - Beef, - Chicken, and - Pork. A dinner order consists of an order for one or more roast dinners, where each dinner has a size and a list of sides / vegetables to go with it. Each roast dinner order requires a name and a phone number for pickup/ Delivery is not available. Customers may choose to add additional serves of meat at $4 per serve, or additional sides / vegetables at $2 per serve. The application must be error tolerant and capable of accepting keyboard input to store a number of roast dinner 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:  The details of each roast dinner in the order,  The total cost of the order, and  The name and phone number of the person who making the order. ITECH5403 – Comparative Programming Languages School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 3 of 7 Example Program Output ---------------------------------------- --- Welcome to FedUni Roast Dinners! --- ---------------------------------------- Could I take your name please? Hungry Joe And your phone number? 0123456789 What size dinner would you like? (M)edium, (L)arge or e(X)tra Large? M What meat would you like with that? (B)eef, (C)hicken or (P)ork? B Medium dinners come with two sides. Available sides are: - (R)oast Potatoes - (C)arrots - (P)eas - (Y)orkshire pudding - (G)ravy - (B)roccoli R And your next side? C Thank you. Would you like to add a serve of (M)eat or a (S)side? (N)o thanks. M What meat would you like with that? (B)eef, (C)hicken or (P)ork? C Thank you. Would you like to add a serve of (M)eat or a (S)side? (N)o thanks. N Would you like to (A)dd a dinner to your order? (N)o thanks. A What size dinner would you like? (M)edium, (L)arge or e(X)tra Large? L What meat would you like with that? (B)eef, (C)hicken or (P)ork? P Large dinners come with three sides - options are: - (R)oast Potatoes - (C)arrots - (P)eas - (Y)orkshire pudding - (G)ravy - (B)roccoli G And your next side? Y And your next side? ITECH5403 – Comparative Programming Languages School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 4 of 7 R Thank you. Would you like to add a serve of (M)eat or a (S)side? (N)o thanks. S Available sides are: - (R)oast Potatoes - (C)arrots - (P)eas - (Y)orkshire pudding - (G)ravy - (B)roccoli B Thank you. Would you like to add a serve of (M)eat or a (S)side? (N)o thanks. N Would you like to (A)dd a dinner to your order? (N)o thanks. N ---------------------------------------- Thanks Hungry Joe (Ph: 0123456789) Your order summary is: - Medium dinner with Beef, Chicken, Roast Potatoes and Carrots. - Large dinner with Pork, Gravy, Yorkshire Pudding, Roast Potatoes and Broccoli. Your order comes to: $31.00 ----------------------------------------- ----------- Have a nice day! ------------ ----------------------------------------- ITECH5403 – Comparative Programming Languages School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 5 of 7 Suggested Development Environments Codeblocks for C '99 / C++ 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 or C++ as the programming language. IDLE for Python Python, including the IDLE development environment can be downloaded from: https://www.python.org/downloads/ Eclipse for Java 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: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html 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 obtained from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/clisp/files/latest/download Any good text editor would be suitable for writing the source code. Stawberry Perl for Perl Strawberyy Perl can be obtained from: http://strawberryperl.com/ Any good text editor would be suitable for writing the source code. ITECH5403 – Comparative Programming Languages School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 6 of 7 Additional Documentation – Language Suitability Report Every programming languages is designed to be used for different types of tasks, and has features which allow it to be a good choice for those tasks, while perhaps not as good at different types of tasks. During your implementation of the roast dinner 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__.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 5pm. The mark distribution for this assignment is explained on the next page. ITECH5403 – Comparative Programming Languages School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 7 of 7 Assignment 2 – Parallel Implementations Student name: Student ID: Requirement Weight Mark Implementation of the roast dinner shop program in the C or C++ programming language. Areas of note include: - Use of data structures, - Robust input handling which does not cause program termination if provided with bad data (i.e. program expects a number, gets given alphanumerical data). 10 Implementation of the roast dinner shop program in the Python programming language. Areas of note include: - Python Standard library, - List mechanisms. 10 Implementation of the roast dinner shop program in the Java programming language. Areas of note include: - Object orientation mechanism / method calls, - Error handling - Standard Java libraries 10 Implementation of the roast dinner shop program in the Lisp or Perl programming languages. Areas of note include: - Possible use of recursion - lists - Inbuilt data structures 10 Documentation and discussion of the comparative ease of implementation (design / implement / debug) in each programming language, including how robustness issues were addressed. 10 Spelling and grammar 5 Assignment mark total / 55 Contribution to unit mark (out of 20%) % Comments: