Procedural Programming

Question 1

what is procedural programming?

Answer 1

The procedural programming paradigm is where program code is divided up into procedures, which are discrete blocks of code that carry out a single task.

Question 2

Benefits of Procedural Programming:

Answer 2

1. subroutines can be called many times, reducing the amount of repeated code.
2. Large projects can be completed quicker as different programmers work on different subroutines concurrently.
3. easier to test and debug.

Question 3

Drawbacks of procedural programming:

Answer 3

1. only focuses on what needs to be done, rather than on the integrity of the data that it manipulates.