ASSIGNMENT

MODULE NAME : SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION

LEVEL : BACHELOR DEGREE

STUDENT’S NAME : [Link]

EXAMINATION NO. : 53399

PROGRAMME : BICT

LEARNING CENTRE : BMI Campus , Kandy , Sri Lanka

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENT

1) Please answer ALL questions.

2) Plagiarism in all forms is forbidden. Students who submit plagiarised assignment will be
penalised.
3) References MUST be included and taken from reliable sources. Please use the
APA Referencing Style and cite your work appropriately.
4) Repeat fee per module Rs. 2,000/-

THERE ARE Type Page Numbers PAGES, EXCLUDING THIS PAGE.

DECLARATION BY STUDENT

I certify that this assignment is my own work and is in my own words. All sources have been
acknowledged and the content has not been previously submitted for assessment to Asia e University
or elsewhere. I also confirm that I have kept a copy of this assignment.

Signed: chamodra
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Contents

Question 1......................................................................................................................................2

Question 2......................................................................................................................................3

Question 3......................................................................................................................................4

Question 4......................................................................................................................................5

References......................................................................................................................................6
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Question 1
a)

i. System programming
ii. Application development

b)

If I as an IT manager I would like to propose to the CEO JavaScript. Because it’s well suited for
web based development and it has a strong community support. And also I would like to
propose CEO that using the java script for the development for the e-learning system.

Here is the reason I recommended JavaScript for developing the e-learning system.
The JavaScript is a famous programming language between developers. This language is widely
used for front end web development.
JavaScript has a robust set of libraries, much more user friendly than other languages and also
frameworks. It is such as angular and react and easy to build complex web application.
The JavaScript is also supported by modern technology and browsers.

Here are some more specific uses of JavaScript in web development

 Browser games
 Web applications
 Front end interactivity
 Back end web development

Finally think that JavaScript would be suitable for developing a web based e-learning system.
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Question 2

“Concurrency is the tendency for things to happen at the same time in a system. Concurrency is
a natural phenomenon, of course. In the real world, at any given time, many things are
happening simultaneously. When we design software to monitor and control real world systems,
we must deal with this natural concurrency. ”

There are several mechanisms that can be used to support concurrency in a system.

Here are three common ones with expiation.

 Threads
a thread is lightweight process that share the same memory space as its parent process. Also
multiple threads can run concurrently with a process and each with own thread of control.
The threads are also can communicate with in the parent process using IPC mechanisms.

 Process
The process is an instance of a [Link] has own memory and own thread of control multiple
processes can also run concurrently on the system and own resources and own memory space.
Literally processes can communicate with other using inter process communication mechanisms
such as socket, pipes and maybe shared memory.

 Synchronization primitives

Multiple threads may accesses shared resources such as memory or files in a concurrent system.
Such as prevent data races or other synchronization issues, primitives can be use monitors,
semaphores or lock. These are only one process or thread access to share resource at a time,
ensuring data integrity and preventing conflicts.

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Question 3

c) The “isKeyword() ” method take a string as checks if the string is a C keyword or not. It
does comparing the input string with the pre-defined list of C keywords. If the input
string matches with any of the keywords, it returns1, else it returns 0.

b) Output of the program when syntax in the file named “ [Link]”

The program will read the file character by character and identifies the identifiers, keywords
and also operators present in the file. In this case, the program will identify keywords,
identifiers and operators like this.

keywords identifiers operators

void Main (
x )
int y {
z }
char g ,
‘A’ ;
=
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Question 4
a)

T E’

T
F +

id T’

F *

id F

id

b)

($ is represents the end of the input string.)

FIRST FLLOW
(E) = {(,id} (E) = {$,)}
(E) = {+, } (E) = {$,}
(T) = {(,id} (T) = {+,$,)}
(T) = {*,} (T) = {+,$,)}
(T) = {(,id} (T) = {*,+,$,)}
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References

1. BMI campus, sri lanka, software construction , kandy sri lanka (2023)

2. Geeksforgeeks
[Link]

3. Javapoint
[Link]

4. Massachusetts institute of technology

[Link]

5. Engineering libre text

[Link]

6. Courser
[Link]