Programming paradigms

Question 1

What is a programming paradigm?

Answer 1

A style of computer programming, different programming languages support tackling problems in different ways.

Question 2

What is procedural programming?

Answer 2

Works through a series of instructions, which tells the computer what to do with the input in order to solve the problem.

Question 3

What is declarative programming?

Answer 3

Statements are written to describe the problem

Question 4

What is declarative programming?

Answer 4

Statements are written to describe the problem to be solved, and language implementation decides the best way of solving it e.g. SQL.

Question 5

What is functional programming?

Answer 5

Functions, not objects or procedures, are used as the fundamental building blocks of a program. Statements are written in a series of functions, which are accept input data arguments and return an output e.g. Python, C# and Java.