Case Scenario:
You are a technical intern at a large web-based organisation that provides a popular search engine, web hosting and cloud storage solutions. Part of your role is to advise management on the technical side of the organisation, and suggest improvements that could improve efficiency.
Task 1: Key Algorithms and complexity
The organisation returns search results in an unordered fashion, and they would like to provide a function which automatically sorts the website names alphabetically.
Your task Is to choose four sorting algorithms, and then decide on one which is the most efficient You should discuss how they sort data, their time and space complexity and provide a step-by-step run through of how an unordered array of strings is sorted by the algorithm.
You should use an array of 16 unordered strings to test your algorithm. And use the same strings for each algorithm. You should refer to published research throughout.
Task 2: Website technologies and HTML
The organisation wants to provide a simple web page to explain the new sorting feature which sorts search results alphabetically. Your task is to design a simple webpage using FITIAL and CSS. The webpage should have a dean design with appropriate text and colours, and use a wide variety of tags and features to show your HTML and CSS fluency.
You may choose a fictional organisation name for the purposes of this task. You need to provide evidence of your code, and evidence of the finished webpage.
Evidence must be submitted in the form of screenshots attached to your coursework. Do not directly copy code into your report.
Task 3: Boolean Logic
You have also been asked to prepare a small report for new members of the technical team on the topic of logic gates in computer systems; they are interested in how logic gates can be used in sequence to create new circuits.
Show how the logic gates 'XOR'. 'XNOR' and 'NAND' can be created by combining the logic gates 'AND', OR' and 'NOT'. You should provide a visual diagram and explanation for each new circuit to justify your design. You may also Boolean algebra to back up your arguments.