Business Administration - Computer Fundamentals

1. TRINITY INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
Affiliated Institution of G.G.S.IP.U, Delhi
BBA(Gen)
Computer Fundamentals
(17107)
BHARTI DEWANI
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, IT

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
Generations of
Programming Languages

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
The five generations
• We generally count five "generations" of
programming languages
• Each generation represents technological
advances
• "Advances" may just reflect changing
preferences

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
First generation
• Examples: FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC
• Key concept: Language designs were based directly on
available hardware
• Efficiency was everything
• Language names are acronyms and are typically
spelled with all capital letters

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
1G: Primitive data types
• Data types reflect types defined by the hardware
• Multiple types of numbers (fixed, floating, various
sizes)
• Characters and booleans are represented as numbers
• No user-defined types
• Identifiers have types, but type safety is not a big
concern
• Identifiers bound directly to storage locations--no
dynamic storage

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
IG: Data Structure
• Data structures are based on those of machine
language
– that is, single contiguous blocks of storage
• No nesting of data structures (just arrays, records)
– Arrays represent a block of locations (FORTRAN,
BASIC)
– Records represent layout of data on a punched
card (COBOL)

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
1G: Control structures
• Control structures are based on those of
machine language
– Multiple kinds of GOTOs
– Little nesting of control structures (exception: DO
loops in FORTRAN)
– No recursion (exception: BASIC)
– A single way to pass parameters (usually by
reference)

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
Second generation
• Algol 60 was the premier 2G language
• Key concepts: Abstraction and generalization
– Algol 60 introduced the notion of a "virtual
machine," not tied to particular hardware
– Algol 60 introduced real and integer data types
not tied to a particular bit representation, and
generalized loop and selection (if) statements
• Alan Perlis: "Algol was indeed an achievement; it was
a significant advance on most of its successors."

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
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2G: Data structures
Machine independence seen as a valid concern
Simplification and abstraction of numeric types (real,
integer)
Arrays with user-defined lower bounds (not just 1)
Dynamic (expandable) arrays
Booleans introduced, but still not characters
Strings could be used for output only
Strong typing

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
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2G: Control structures
True hierarchical (nested) control structures
Generalized control structures
Often overly complex and baroque (e.g. for,
switch)
"Blocks" provide fine control over nesting, scopes
Could pass parameters by value
Could pass parameters by name

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
Third generation
• Example: Pascal
• Key concepts: Simplicity and generality
– More but simpler control structures
– Expanded and generalized data types

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
3G: Data Structures
• Recognition that not everything is a number
• Language support for strings (or at least characters)
• New data types introduced:
– sets
– subranges
– enumeration types
• User-defined data types
• Hierarchical nesting of data types
• User-controllable memory allocation

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
3G: Control structures
• More but simpler control structures
– three kinds of loop replace Algol's single for loop
• Case statements introduced
– called "switch" in C, Java
• Simpler control structures can be more
efficient as well as easier to understand
• "Call by name" parameter transmission was
discarded

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
Fourth generation
• Examples are Ada, Modula
• Key concept: Emphasis on data abstraction

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
4G: Data structures
• Separation of specification and definition
– Other programmers and program parts can access
the specification, not the code
– This gives better support for information hiding
– But this leads to duplication, which is error-prone
• Name access by mutual consent
• Generic or polymorphic subprograms
• Exceptions (errors) attain the status of a data
type

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
4G: Control structures
• Concurrent programming, that is, multiple
communicating processes
• Protected or synchronized types
• Functions can be overloaded (operators, too)
• Exception handlers result in a new flow of control

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
Fifth generation
• Key concept: No general agreement on what 5G is
• Prolog was the basis of the Japanese "Fifth-
Generation Project"
– The Fifth-Generation Project was not a success
• O-O languages are now the dominant paradigm
– They are the de facto fifth generation
• But logic programming has a prior claim to the name
• Functional programming is also a contender for 5G

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
Fifth generation (Contd.)
• Fifth generation (Smalltalk, Java)
• Key concept: Object orientation
• Three essential features:
– Abstract data types (grouping of data and
methods)
– Inheritance (of types and methods, with
overriding)
– Messages (dynamic binding to methods)

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
5G: Data structures
• Everything (or almost everything) is an object
• All behaviors (methods) are encapsulated within
objects
• Objects are arranged in a hierarchy
• But object space is still "flat," with little or no nesting
– Java's inner classes are too little, too late
• Data and methods are inherited
• Data and methods can be overridden

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
5G: Control structures
• Instead of calling functions, send messages to
objects
– Variables can hold different objects at different
times
• Most O-O languages have support for GUI events
– An event is a message sent "to whom it may
concern"
– Event-handling may be container-based (Mac, Java
1.0)
– Better event-handling is listener-based (Java 1.1)

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Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75
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