Paradigms

Question 1

What actually is a paradigm?

Answer 1

To describe an example of a way of doing things

Question 2

Give examples of programming paradigms

Answer 2

Python, C#, Visual Basic

Question 3

What is turing complete?

Answer 3

A computer language that can solve all the problems that a computer is able to solve

Question 4

What is an imperative language?

Answer 4

Uses statements that change a program’s state in the form of a sequence, selection, iteration, etc. They consist of commands for a computer to perform and focus on describing how a program operates

Question 5

What is a declarative language?

Answer 5

They focus on what the program should accomplish.

Question 6

In imperative languages, there are two types of programming you need to know. What are they? Then explain what or how they work.

Answer 6

1. Procedural programming. This is where a program is built from one ore more subroutines (procedures or functions)
2. Object-oriented programming. This focuses more on a modular approach to programming.

Question 7

Name some examples of low-level languages

Answer 7

1. Machine code

2. Assembly

Question 8

Name some examples of high-level languages

Answer 8

1. Basic

2. C

Question 9

Name some procedural paradigms

Answer 9

1. Fortran

2. Cobol

Question 10

Name some object-oriented paradigms

Answer 10

1. C++
2. java
3. C#