Programming Paradigms

• Structured Oriented Programming
• each block of code performs a distinct operation 
• keeps data inside (local) or outside (global) of the procedures
• Object Oriented Programming
• gathers together procedures and their associated data into a class
• Functional Programming 
• Used in purely mathematical disciplines
• Logic Programming 
• Knowledge representation and making inferences

Basic Terms in Programming

• Data types 
• Numeric
• Characters –String
• Boolean –True / False
• Operations 
• Arithmetic Operators 
• Logical Operators
• Relational Operators 
• Bitwise Operators ( & , | , ~ , >>, <<) 
• Identifiers
• Variables
• Constants
• Function –a section of code that performs a specific task
• add ( Integer X, Integer Y) -returns X+Y
• Syntax -how program is formed
• Grammatical rule in language that defines how to perform expressions and combine them 
• Semantics –what program does
• Meaning of an expression or a program