Programming Languages and Paradigms

These flashcards cover essential vocabulary related to programming languages, their paradigms, and important concepts in coding and syntax.

Procedural Programming

A programming paradigm based on the concept of procedure calls, where statements are structured into procedures.

Object-Oriented Programming

A programming paradigm that uses 'objects' to encapsulate data and methods, promoting code reusability.

Functional Programming

A programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing state.

Structured Programming

A subset of procedural programming that emphasizes clarity, simplicity, and control structures in code.

Syntax

The rules that define the structure of statements in a programming language.

Semantics

The meaning of the language constructs in programming, distinct from its syntax.

High Level Language

Programming languages that are more user-friendly and abstracted from machine code, easier to read and write.

Machine Language

The lowest level of programming language, consisting of binary code understood directly by a computer's CPU.

Assembly Language

A low-level programming language that uses symbolic instructions to represent machine-level code.

Good Programming Language Attributes

Includes clarity, efficiency, support for abstraction, and orthogonality, which enhance code quality.

Data Types

Categories of data that dictate what kind of values can be stored and manipulated within a program.