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    MERU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

    P.O. Box 972-60200 – Meru-Kenya


    Tel: 020-2069349, 061-2309217. 064-30320 Cell phone: +254 712524293, +254 789151411
    Fax: 064-30321
    Website: www.must.ac.ke Email: info@must.ac.ke

    University Examinations 2014/2015

    YEAR FOUR SUPPLEMENTARY/SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE


    OF
    BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

    CCS 3329: PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS

    DATE: JULY 2016 TIME: 2 HOURS


    INSTRUCTIONS: Answer question one and any other two questions.

    QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)


    a) Discuss how the following object-oriented concepts may help a programmer design and
    implement an application. Illustrate your answer with appropriate examples (10 marks)
    b) Differentiate between Event Driven programming paradigm and Object Oriented
    Programming Paradigm (6 marks)
    c) Describe the term concurrency with reference to software systems and explain why it is
    desirable for a programming language to provide support for concurrency (6 marks)
    d) Write a recursive algorithm to display the power of any given positive integer number
    (4 marks)
    e) Using relevant examples differentiate between a PREDICATE and a CLAUSE in proglog
    programming language. (4 marks)

    QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)


    a) “A logic program written in the Prolog programming language specifies what a program
    should do and not how it does it.” With reference to this statement, discuss the
    differences between a logic programming language and an imperative programming
    language. (12 marks)
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    b) “In the animal world, carnivores such as lions and leopards hunt and eat herbivores such
    as zebras and wild beast. Thus some animals are hunters and some are hunted. However
    there are many exceptions to this rule. Elephants, which are herbivores, are rarely hunted
    because of their size. Nor are bears, which are not normally meat eaters and therefore
    basically herbivores. Bears will catch and eat other animals when opportunity arises”
    (i) Draw a well labeled semantic network to represent the above information.
    (4 marks)
    (ii) Write a knowledge base in PROLOG that can be used to represent the above
    information (4 marks)

    QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)


    a) Explain what is meant by the term data abstraction. Use examples to illustrate your
    answer. (4 marks)
    b) Explain the terms Functional Programming and Programming Language (6 marks)
    c) Describe three importance traits that constitute a programming language (6 marks)
    d) Using relevant examples differentiate between the terms; Syntax and Semantics, of a
    given language. (4 marks)

    QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)


    a) Describe the following terms:
    (i) Recursion
    (ii) Backtracking (4 marks)
    b) Giving an example of a language, describe a met-circular interpreter (4 marks)
    c) With reference to the following code, discuss how facts, rules and goals are used in a
    Prolog program. Explain how this program can be used to find out the possible pairs of
    grandparent and grandchild? In your answer, briefly explain the role of resolution and
    unification
    father(adam, susan).
    father(adam, bill).
    father(bill, carl).
    mother(rose, susan).
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    mother(rose, bill)
    mother(susan,trudy).
    parent(X,Y):-mother(X,Y).
    parent(X,Y):-father(X,Y).
    grandparent(X,Z):-parent(X,Y), Parent(Y,Z) (12 marks)

    QUESTION FIVE (20 MARKS)


    a) Discuss the key reasons why it is important to have an international standard for any
    programming language. (10 marks)
    b) Write the following statements in symbolic form (5 marks)
    (i) He is neither handsome nor happy.
    (ii) To be ugly is to be unhappy.
    (iii) One is never happy if he Is handsome.
    (iv) He cannot be both handsome and happy
    (v) If he is not ugly and happy, then he is handsome.
    c) An indoor pet is usually a pet that is small. A pet can be a dog or a cat. If it is small and
    a dog then it is called Simba. Simba has hairy fur.
    Write a wff(well formed formula) logic program for the above scenario. (5 marks)

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