Scripting languages

Question 1

What are Scripting Languages used for?

Answer 1

Building websites when creating individual webpages.

Question 2

What are the uses of Java?

Answer 2

• allows you to enter and process data to produce an output
• used for solving complex problems which are problems with mathematical calculations and equations
• has rigid static typing systems based on hardware-level concepts. E.g when declaring an Integer variable, we decide what data type it will hold and it will only hold given the given digits, making Java limited and not flexible.

Question 3

What are Perl and Python scripting languages?

Answer 3

Languages that provide flexibility and dynamic type checking to aid rapid development.

Question 4

What are Perl and Python known for?

Answer 4

As glue languages because it compiles more than one language at the same time for a specific purpose.

Question 5

Give facts on Scripting Languages

Answer 5

• unique style of programming language
• different from traditional languages
• made to glue languages
• one statement can execute a large number of instructions
• a “type-less” language but can still develop complex algorithms and data structures
• used to create dynamic web pages

Question 6

What are the 2 Web Scripting Languages?

Answer 6

Server-side

Client-side

Question 7

Give facts on Server-side Scripting language

Answer 7

• process done as a user, everything done in a server. User only received result/output from process
• made use of huge resources of the server
• completes all processing and send plain pages to user
• reduce client-side computation overhead