Polyglot-Project Plan - [ "Hello, World!" ]

Team. The grandest of romances starts with a simple word, "Hello" or "You have an ant in your hair!". And, the most potent program from which one can build any other is just as simple. It is that canonical first program in every modern freshman computing course, "Hello, World!" It is simple and tests one of the most fundamental processes in computing, producing output. The other pair of primitive processes is accepting input and transforming that data which a program receives when producing worthwhile information for output.

Some of the skills needed for completing the project listed in this web history are not described herein. These include installing and configuring the simple, free integrated development environment, MS Visual Studio Code, for use. We use this product since it supports each of the chosen languages. If this configuration process is a mystery, one must search on-line for instructions at Microsoft or other sites with software development tutorials. Also, one simply can install interpreters or compilers for each of these languages and then use a command shell for running each script or object file.

This source archive contains all of the instances of the simple "Hello, World!" program which we will use as a starting-point for our multilingual "general-purpose" controller project. One can rewrite the scripts as he chooses becoming familiar with this process for using each language in Microsoft Visual Code.

The nine step process for developing the "general-purpose" controller components in various languages is below:

NuevoArchitect - [General-Purpose Controllers] -  07.01.2020

(9-Step) Evolutionary Development Plan for a CABOOSE Server

Step A. Hello World (on a single line)

Step B. Hello World (from a subroutine)

Step C. Hello World (in a text-file from a subroutine with exception handling)

Step D. Hello World (in an html-file from a subroutine with exception handling)

Step E. Directory.scsv (echo from a subroutine with exception handling)

Step F. Directory Dictionaries (built with a subroutine from *.scsv and echo)

Step G. Directory-Driven Hello World (with classes called CABOOSE and SCSV)

Step H. Directory-Driven Storyboard with VUE.js web-components and text-replacements.

Step I. Quality Assurance

Nothing in this project requires any advanced programming skills. The abilities used are acquired by most students who take a course in programming fundamentals as a high school or college student. We will be using the common output command used in the "Hello, World!" program that we created. We also will use subroutines. These can be called modules, functions, procedures, or methods depending upon the language used. Yet, they all perform the same basic tasks. They are subprograms. We will open and read files plus use the exception handling associated with these processes. We will echo and dynamically modify hypertext markup files based upon processing directives in the directory.scsv files. We will interact with a "novel" comma-separated values format that defines segmented sections within it. That is what a "*.scsv" file is, sectioned command separated values. And, we will integrate view components, using VUE.js, with our product showing how flexible and universal it is.

The author should note that the dates on the copyright are set in the future by a couple of weeks. It was initial intended that this project would reach this on-line venue after July 01. 2020. The dates were not rolled backwards. So, we are ahead of schedule. Ironically, the first few posts on this Rosetta Stone weblog were in 2016.