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Question 1

What is a programming paradigm?

Answer 1

Different approaches to using a programming language to solve a problem

Question 2

What are imperative paradigms?

Answer 2

Involve identify the actions that need to be performed to solve the problem

Question 3

What are procedural languages?

Answer 3

These use a sequence of instructions that are carried out step by step

Question 4

What are OOP languages?

Answer 4

These use the idea of classes and objects which have certain attributes

Question 5

What are declarative programming paradigms?

Answer 5

These focus on stating the desired result

Question 6

What are functional paradigms?

Answer 6

These reuse a set of functions which make up the core program

Question 7

What are logical paradigms?

Answer 7

These work by defining a set of facts and rules for the problem and using these to create a solution

Question 8

What is assembly language?

Answer 8

• next step up from machine code
• converted to machine code using an assembler
• use easy to remember mnemonics
• processor specific

Question 9

What is immediate addressing?

Answer 9

The operand is the actual data

Question 10

What is direct addressing?

Answer 10

The operand is the memory address of the data

Question 11

What is indirect addressing?

Answer 11

The operand is the memory address of the address of the data

Question 12

What is indexed addressing?

Answer 12

The operand is added to the index register

Question 13

What is instansiation ?

Answer 13

Creating an instance of a class

Question 14

What is encapsulation?

Answer 14

Where attributes are declared as private so they can only be altered by public methods

Question 15

What is polymorphism?

Answer 15

Objects can behave differently depending on their class