Programming paradigms(1.2.4 a)

Question 1

What is a paradigm?

Answer 1

a set of structures, methods, procedures, behaviours, principles or similar that are outlined when a task needs to be done

Question 2

What is machine code?

Answer 2

code in the language the machines understand 1s and 0s

Question 3

Examples of high level programming languages

Answer 3

declarative languages
imperative languages

Question 4

Examples of low level programming languages

Answer 4

assembly language
machine code

Question 5

High level languages

Answer 5

any level that is not assembly
much easier for humans to interpret
early languages like c# are classed as lower level than modern languages

Question 6

High level language to machine code

Answer 6

requires a process for translating machine code (usually using interpreter or compiler) reducing efficiency of execution

Question 7

Different high level language functionality

Answer 7

multiple different languages functionality of which changes as hardware and software evolves

Question 8

What is an imperative?

Answer 8

to give instructions as to how things need to be done

Question 9

What type of languages are mostly imperative?

Answer 9

high level languages
e.g python, C#, java, visual basic

Question 10

What does declarative mean?

Answer 10

to dictate the results of a task but not the method

Question 11

What languages tend to be declarative?

Answer 11

database query languages tend to declarative simply stating what information they wish to retrieve and letting the DBMS handle details of implementation

Question 12

Example of query language

Answer 12

SQL

Question 13

What is procedural programming?

Answer 13

focuses on creating a solution to a problem using fuctions, procedures and subroutines that combine to form a complete program

Question 14

What is oop made up of?

Answer 14

programs are built of classes which contain attributes and methods