Comprehensive Design and Features of the EduSec Programming Language

This project details the design and features of the EduSec programming language, a language tailored for the education sector. The language is designed to support graphical user interfaces, data abstraction, and inheritance, with the ability to connect to various databases like MySQL and NoSQL. It incorporates features for theme and plugin construction, enabling the creation of modules for registration, login, fee payment, and grading. EduSec supports online transactions, including payments, chatting, and messaging, and is compatible with different browsers. The language also handles online learning resources, including video and audio sharing and downloading. The project covers the language's compilation process, using standard IDEs, and its memory management, including heap allocation, object allocation, and garbage collection. It also explores scoping features (local and global) and design aspects such as simplicity, orthogonality, data types, and syntax. The language aims for simplicity through easy-to-understand syntax, automatic library imports, and error handling. Orthogonality is achieved through concise commands that execute complex operations. The project also details data types and the syntax, including how to start, end, and comment in the code, and supports data abstraction through interfaces.

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Introduction
Programmers tend to think how they cant design and construct their own programming
language in order to make their programming very easy since they believe that the language will
completely suit their needs. The design and construction of the new programming language is
possible as long as some common factor are put into consideration, McKeeman (2014). In order
to create the best programming language, it is prudent enough to consider the following during
the design process.
a. If the programming language designing will be strongly or loosely typed.
b. If the language will be able to give support to the object orientation hence referred to
object oriented programming language. This means that the language will be
supporting data abstraction and inheritance where the child classes will be able to
take and use the characteristics of the parent class.
c. To check if the language under construction will be able to make use of the static or
rather dynamic scope rules. The static scope is also known as the lexical scope.
d. To check the level of memory management of the language.
e. To consider of the language will be able to give provisions of the closures in order to
allow the functions of the language to be passed just the way variables are passed.
f. Consider if the language will be providing the correction function of the source code.
This can be done though the try – catch capability which throws exceptions for error
handling.
Putting this all factors into consideration, though not all factors to consider before
designing and developing a programming language. The language being designed and developed
for this case is named Edusec Programming Language. The language will suit the education
sector since the features under this language will be considered as features to solve the problems
of the educational sectors.

EduSec Programming Language
Edusec programming language will be a language which will be developing education
oriented online systems, Madsen(2013). The programming language will be having the following
features in order to suit the purpose.
1. Will be complete supporting the graphical user interface
2. The language will be high level programming language supporting the data abstraction
and also inheritance.
3. The programming language will have the ability to be connected with different databases
which includes MySQL, NoSQL and MONGO database among others. This will enable
developers to be able to create the client and server side supporting systems.
4. The language will be supporting theme and plugin construction therefore most of the
education system features which in this case includes the registration module, the login
module and the fee payment module , grading module and other related modules will be
readily available in the language so make it easy for the developers to create the system.
5. Since the language will be running on browser and can be hosted online, the language
will be able to support different transaction which are carried out on online portals which
includes, online payments, online chatting systems and messaging, will be supported by
almost all browsers available and also the language will be able to support upgrade and
internet connection operations.
6. The language will be in a position to handle online resources for learning, the language
will be able to support video sharing, video capture and video paly and also downloading.
The same to audio as this is the primary level for education sector.
EduSec Programming language compilation
According to Berry & Gonthier (2012). A compiler is a computer based program or
software which converts the high level programming language codes to a low level machine
language which can be understood by a computer for execution. The compiler translation of the
code creates the executable programs.

The language will be running on browser as earlier stated. Just like the way other
programming language for developing online system are edited in IDEs, the EduSec
programming language will be edited in the same IDEs which includes the following; the
Notepad, Notepad++, phpstorm for jectbrains, sublime and any other IDE which can be used to
edit the codes for online based programming languages. This are the same editors and compilers
which will be used to edit and compile the EduSec programming language codes.
EduSec Programming Language Memory Management
EduSec Memory management
According to Rumbaugh (2011), Every computer program requires a memory to be
allocated in order for it to run smoothly. The memory allocation is used for data storage and also
data structures. For the program also to be stored, a memory is also needed for the same. In fact ,
if the language developed is able to allocate the memory and cannot free the memory, then the
program developed used such a programming language will be running for a very long time , the
execution and the run time will be significantly very long and lastly, the program will run out of
memory and might even hand or crash down.
The EduSec programming language will be having all the features to manage memory,
this includes both memory allocation and freeing up the memory too. In order to make this more
efficient, the language will be developed with an automatic memory management and garbage
collection features so that the process could be efficient and effective enough.
For this to be practical enough, the language will have the following elements which are
very crucial for memory management.
The Heap
The EduSec programming language will have the heap which will be hosting the objects.
The heap is normally created immediately the programs executes. When the data stores is full in
that particular heap, the garbage will be collected. This is the data which are not in use at all or
data whose function is over.

The Object allocation
The language will have the feature to allocate memory for objects such as array and
variable. When the program runs, some data will be stored in a temporary memory called the
variable and others in an array, This objects are allocated memory to temporary storage.
The garbage collection
This is the method of getting the object and the heap freed up. The language will have
this special feature in order to make the program developed run faster and smoothly.
EduSec Scoping Features
As far as programming languages are concerned, the scope is the variable and the method
or function visibility in different section and parts of the program. The EduSec programming
language will be having the scope feature which in this case is categorized into the local and the
global scope. The language will be developed with the global scope so that this can be easy for
the method of connection to the database to be reused n each and every class of the program
being developed using the EduSec programming language.
Specifications of EduSec Programming Language
Simplicity
In programming and software development, the simplicity of the programming language
is the quality which is always desired by the users and the developer of the language too. Though
this is not easy to users of the language. EduSec programming language will be simple and easy
to lean. Its simplicity will be achieved in the following ways.
 The syntax of the language will be easy to understand.
 The libraries will be imported to the code automatically.
 The code will be easily understood even by the non programmer.

 The feature to handle errors using the error handling try catch handling will be
incorporated, this will help in handling any error on runtime.
 The compile time error and execution error handling will also be handled.
Orthogonality
In programming language, orthogonality simple indicates that a little primitive
constructors be combined together in little numbers in order to control and build the language
data structures, Stefik & Bobrow (2017). It is believed that the more orthogonal the design is,
then the more simple it is hence the exceptions will be further fewer in number.
For the EduSec programming language, will be more orthogonal than any other language
ever before. The small statements to execute huge results.
From its proposed syntax, some of the simple commands that will inturn be executing
huge results are as follows;
$list- this will be the command to list all items available in any order.
$list Ord- will be the command to list all items available in orderly manner.
$Start- this will be the command to show that the execution of the program will be starting from
the point.
$end – this will be the command to show that the program execution will be ending at this point
and any other code below the $end command will not be executed.
$compute – this will be the command to compute any calculations available.
Example: $ compute ( + 3 4 ) This sample code in EduSec will be computing the addition of 3
and 4.
For the student portal version development. The code $regForm will be the code to create
a full registration form . This will be very simple for the developers to create the system for the
educational purposes.

Example:
$start
$regForm Name, Id , Password $$regForm $end
This is a very simple code that will create the registration form with name, id and
password fields. The programming language therefore will be more orthogonal since simple and
fewer codes will be used to generate more results.
Data types
Data type are data that informs the compiler of the program the kind of data the
developer has used or the kind of data which is supposed to be used. Some of the examples of
data types includes String, integer, Boolean, character, Float any others.
The EduSec programming language will have the capabilities of using all the data types
including the above. Though the ese of this kind of data type will be very simple since the types
will be abbreviated in a more understandable manner as follows.
Boolean – Bool , String – str and Integer – int
This will make it easy for the programmers to use such data types during the coding and
development process.
Syntax design
The syntax of programming languages are set of rules which governs the operation of the
language which in this case includes, symbols combinations, Rentsch (2009). The syntax of the
language considers the following factors:
1. How to end a command line
2. How to get to the next line of command
3. How to comment on the program
4. How to start and end the program coding.

The EduSec programming language will have the following syntax as below:
The program will begin with $start which shows that this is the point where execution of
the program will be starting from.The command $end will stop the execution of the program.
#comment# the hash command will show the beginning of the comment. Comment are not
executed at all, they provide more direction and guide to non programmers on the functions of
the code.
All statements will be ending with semi colon ( ; ) this will show that the statement has
come to an end and any other statement after the semi colon will be executed as the next line of
code.
The above are some of the syntax of the EduSec programming language and this are
simple enough for the developer or the learner of the language to easily understand within a very
short time frame.
Support for abstraction
Data abstraction as in object oriented programming languages, is the process of hiding
data from the implementation mode from the user. Rather for this purpose, only the functionality
of the code will be available for the user, Hoare (2010). . This simply means that for the data
abstraction , the user is only able to see and know how the system works but cannot know how
the system is developed to function the way it is functioning.
Abstraction is among the features that EduSec programming language will be having.
This will be made possible through the inclusion of the Interfaces into the language, the
developer is able to hide the code by creating the interface like the Graphical User Interface for
the users of the system to interact and transact on rather than interacting with the code itself. In
the message confirmations also will be hidden.

Expressivity
This term is used to refer to the language that is easy to write code which is easily
understood by the human reader and the compiler reader too. For the language to be said to be
expressive, then it must be easily readable and understood, Brady (2013).
The EduSec programming language will be more expressive since the code will be easily
understood by the developer and the compiler too. This will be done by adding more primitive
constructs in the language.
Type checking
In programming languages, type checking refers to how the type errors are checked , this
can be done at compile time or at run time or both, Halbwachs(2011). For the EduSec
programming language, the language will have the type checking capabilities at the compile time
an at run time as well. This is in order to reduce the number of errors as much as possible since
this will make work more easier of the developer to notice the error as early as possible for
correction.
Exception handling
This is a method used in programming for responding to anomalous conditions which
might be needing the special processing. This is implemented also in EduSec programming
language by the use of the try-catch exceptions, Cox (2016). This will help in catching the error
which are sometimes external or error from the database code connection or linking to the
EduSec programming codes. For all external and nested codes and commands, a try catch will be
implemented to handle external error and abnormal conditions.
Restricted aliasing
This terms refers to the condition of data location in the memory which is gotten in
various names in program. This helps in a such a way that one the data modification affects all
the values which is associated with the name which is aliased, Bruce, K. B. (2008). The use of

the pointers in the EduSec programming language will actually make the achievement of this
particular feature in order to fit the current Educational sector needs.
Discussion
As indicated above, the EduSec Programming Language development overview shows
that this will really meet the need to all developers of the software and systems related to
education. The language has all the features and traits of an object oriented language with
capabilities of performing the following:The language will be able to hide data using the
Interfaces as a method of data abstraction. The language is able to be connected with the
database hence receiving and sending data is possible.
The registration and the login capabilities is incorporated hence easy to implement the
same. For this language, it is easy for this to be developed and implemented into the system. This
can only be done through writing a very simple code $regForm and the whole model of the form
appears. The payment mode has also been made easier in EduSec programming language as this
has been implemented in the code too. The libraries are called for the payment and the whole
function of payment with various payment methods incorporated in the same.
Error handling method is good and best. The implementation of the try catch exceptions
in the language makes it easy for the developer to detect external problems with the code hence
this can be corrected easily and early.
The type checking is also implemented in this programming language, more good
enough, this process has been done in both at compile time and at run time. This is has made it
very easy for the error detection and handling. The developer therefore is able to check the exact
line where the error is and possible to correct the error.
The EduSec programming language therefore is very much reliable programming
language for the education sector software development and design. The writing of code is easy
since most of the code are autocreated and therefore small data constructs and method can be
used to execute big results.The syntax of the language is easily understood as seen above, the
learning time for the starter is very short. Therefore, the code is easily readable.

Conclusion
EduSec programming language will therefore be the best language to be used in the
development of the systems whose orientation is for the education. Most of the core features of
the systems are incorporated in the language during its construction since its developed in order
to suit education sector.It is therefore recommended that EduSec programming language is the
most powerful language for the use in programming especially for the system development in
educational sector.

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