Assignment
Fog Index
The Fog Index is a readability test designed to show how easy or difficult a text is
to read. It uses the following formula:
Reading Level (Grade) = (Average No. of words in sentences + Percentage of
words of three or more syllables) x 0.4
The resulting number is your Gunning Fog Index.
The Gunning Fog Index gives the number of years of education that your reader
hypothetically needs to understand the paragraph or text. The Gunning Fog Index
formula implies that short sentences written in plain English achieve a better
score than long sentences written in complicated language.
For reference, the New York Times has an average Fog Index of 11-12, Time
magazine about 11. Typically, technical documentation has a Fog Index between
10 and 15, and professional prose almost never exceeds 18.
Cyclomatic Complexity
Cyclomatic complexity (or conditional complexity) is software
metric (measurement). It is used to indicate the complexity of a program. It
directly measures the number of linearly independent paths through a
program's source code. The concept, although not the method, is somewhat
similar to that of general text complexity measured by the Flesch-Kincaid
Readability Test.
Cyclomatic complexity is computed using the control flow graph of the program:
the nodes of the graph correspond to indivisible groups of commands of a
program, and a directed edge connects two nodes if the second command might
be executed immediately after the first command. Cyclomatic complexity may
also be applied to individual functions, modules, methods or classes within a
program.