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The document discusses platform definition and history. A platform includes the processor, operating system, and combination of both. Platforms provide different functionality and restrictions. Cross-platform development allows programs to run on multiple platforms through various methods like compilation for each platform or direct execution. Programming languages like C, Java, and Python are described as platform-independent. Web applications can be accessed across operating systems through web browsers. Linux is suited for a wide range of platforms and device types. The document also briefly discusses remote working and developing a group web application project.

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Introduction

The document discusses platform definition and history. A platform includes the processor, operating system, and combination of both. Platforms provide different functionality and restrictions. Cross-platform development allows programs to run on multiple platforms through various methods like compilation for each platform or direct execution. Programming languages like C, Java, and Python are described as platform-independent. Web applications can be accessed across operating systems through web browsers. Linux is suited for a wide range of platforms and device types. The document also briefly discusses remote working and developing a group web application project.

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Platform-based Development

Ms Roger Peralta Aranibar


Platform Definition
Platform Definition

• Processor (mainframe, workstation, desktop, handheld or


embedded) or hardware (x86, SPARC, PowerPC or Alpha).

• Application or Operating system (Windows, Macintosh).

• Combination of both.
Platform Definition

• FOLDOC computing dictionary:

PLATFORM: Specific computer hardware, as in the phrase "platform-


independent". It may also refer to a specific combination of hardware
and operating system and/or compiler, as in "this program has been
ported to several platforms". It is also used to refer to support software
for a particular activity, as in "This program provides a platform for
research into routing protocols".
History
• First meaning: hardware platform.

• Hundreds of operating systems have been developed, Microsoft


Windows and many Unix-like system. Unix original version in 1969
by Bell Labs, or Berkeley extension

• The processor, central processing unit (CPU), is the main logic unit


of a computer. Most widely used processor type is the x86
(i386 or Intel-compatible processor)
History

•  Manufactured by Intel Corporation, or clones made by Advanced


Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

• Chips developed by Intel: i386, i486, i586 by 1982.

• Consolidation in the processor industry, which, in turn, is largely due


to the soaring costs.
Constrain

• Different platforms provide different functionality and restrictions.


Cross-platform

• Platform-independent and portable.

• Most important for Free-software.

• Port is used to describe the development of a version of a program


or an operating system for use on another platform.port is used to
describe the development of a version of a program or an operating
system for use on another platform
Cross-platform

Types:

• Building or compilation for each platform that it supports.

• Directly run on any platform without special preparation.


(Interpreted Languages)
Implementation

• Cross-platform programs may run on as many as all existing


platforms, or on as few as two platforms.

• Hard due to different application programming interfaces. (API)

• Software written for a particular operating system does not


automatically work on all architectures that operating system
supports
Internet

• Among the greatest success stories of platform independence

• Platform independence of TCP/IP. (transmission control protocol/


Internet protocol)
Programming & ScriptingLanguages

• Described as being platform-independent.

• They include C, Java, Perl, PHP and Python. (not Visual Basic)
Binary
• Executable files. Only support the operating system and computer
architecture.

• They include C or C++.

• Separate executable distributions, although they come from the


same source code.

• The software engineer must port it, i.e. amend the code.


Script and Interpreted
• If its interpreter is available on multiple platforms and the script only uses the facilities
provided by the language.

• Script can be used on all computers that have software to interpret the script.

• bash – A Unix shell commonly run on Linux and other modern Unix-like systems,

• Perl – Used for CGI WWW programming, small system administration tasks, and more.

• PHP – A scripting language most popular in use for web applications.

• Python – A modern scripting language where the focus is on rapid application


development and ease-of-writing.

• Ruby – A scripting language whose purpose is to be object-oriented and easy to read.


Operating System
• Linux is that it is well suited for use on a wide range of platforms.

• Computer devices: personal computers, workstations, hand-held


devices, internet appliances, industrial robots, communications
infrastructure equipment, mainframe computers, supercomputers,
and even a wristwatch.

• Processor types: x86, Alpha, Itanium, m68k, PowerPC and SPARC.

• Microsoft Windows operating systems have been designed mainly


for just a single processor type, the x86.
Web Applications
• Accessible from any of various web browsers within different
operating systems.

• Generally employ a client–server system architecture, and vary


widely in complexity and functionality.

• Web applications perform all or most processing from a stateless


server, and pass the result to the client web browser.

• Web interface: Gmail, A9.com, Google Maps.


Course
Working Remote

• Chapter 1, 2 and 3 of https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

• Installed via command line.

• Messaging tool. (Slack or Twist)


Working Remote

• Develop a live Web Application.

• Host on a supported Internet platform.

• Rotative roles that includes testing, release, develop.

• Groups of 5.

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