General Programming

Question 1

Name 5 programming paradigms

Answer 1

Imperative, Procedural, Functional, Declarative, Object-oriented

Question 2

What paradigm consists of sets of detailed instructions given to the computer to execute in a given order?

Answer 2

Imperative Programming

Question 3

What is Imperative Programming?

Answer 3

A paradigm which consists of sets of detailed instructions to be executed in a given order

Question 4

What derivation of Imperative Programming adds functions to the mix?

Answer 4

Procedural Programming

Question 5

What do “procedures” or “subroutines” consist of in Procedural Programming?

Answer 5

Functions

Question 6

What programming paradigm treats functions as first-class citizens, meaning they can be assigned to variables, passed as arguments and returned from other functions?

Answer 6

Functional Programming

Question 7

What do you call a function that always produces the same result given the same input?

Answer 7

Pure Function

Question 8

What paradigm encourages to mostly write in functions?

Answer 8

Functional Programming

Question 9

What paradigm encourages code modularity and the absence of side effects?

Answer 9

Functional Programming

Question 10

What paradigm would advocate minimising global scope variables?

Answer 10

Functional Programming

Question 11

What paradigm aims to hide away from complexity and be immediately human-readable?

Answer 11

Declarative Programming

Question 12

What is Declarative Programming?

Answer 12

A paradigm that promotes human-readability and emphasises the result required, rather than the instructions.

Question 13

If Declarative Programming focuses on the “end”, what paradigm focuses on the “means”?

Answer 13

Imperative Programming

Question 14

What is Functional Programming?

Answer 14

A paradigm featuring pure functions, recursion and first-class functions

Question 15

What is Procedural Programming?

Answer 15

A type of Imperative Programming also known as top-down problem-solving

Question 16

What is OOP?

Answer 16

A paradigm which separates concerns which are coded as objects

Question 17

What style of programming features entities that all have their own properties and methods?

Answer 17

OOP

Question 18

What paradigm makes heavy use of classes?

Answer 18

OOP

Question 19

What is an instance in OOP?

Answer 19

An Object created from a Class

Question 20

What do you call an Object created from a Class in OOP?

Answer 20

Instance

Question 21

What 1994 book explores the capabilities and pitfalls of OOP?

Answer 21

Design Patterns

Question 22

What Creational Design Pattern ensures that a class has only one immutable instance?

Answer 22

Singleton Pattern

Question 23

What is a Singleton?

Answer 23

A design pattern than ensures a class has only one immutable instance

Question 24

What Pattern consists of an object that can’t be copied or modified?

Answer 24

Singleton Pattern

Question 25

What Pattern might you see Object.freeze(Config)?

Answer 25

Singleton Pattern

Question 26

What Creational Design Pattern restricts the instantiation of a class to a singular instance?

Answer 26

Singleton Pattern

Question 27

What Creational Design Pattern provides an interface for creating objects that can be modified after creation?

Answer 27

Factory Method Pattern

Question 28

What is the Factory Method Design Pattern?

Answer 28

A Creational Design Pattern which creates objects that can be modified after creation