AQA 7517 4.1.2.2: Procedural-oriented programming
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What it covers
Everything you have written so far has been a list of instructions, grouped into subroutines. That is one style of programming, and the most common one to learn first, but it is not the only one. A programming paradigm is a style or approach to programming: a way of organising a program, and the ideas a language is built around. Languages are designed for one paradigm or support several; Python supports procedural, object-oriented and functional styles.
- The main paradigms
- Procedural programming
- Hierarchy charts
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Lessons that teach it
- A1.6 Programming paradigms and procedural programming Programming techniques and object-oriented programming
Procedural, object-oriented, declarative and low-level paradigms, the structured approach, and hierarchy charts.
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