• Understanding what is meant by a programming paradigm

• Show understanding of the characteristics of a number of programming paradigms:

  • Low-level programming

    • understanding of and ability to write low-level code that uses various addressing modes: immediate, direct, indirect, indexed and relative

  • Imperative (procedural) programming

    • assumed knowledge and understanding of Structural Programming (see details in AS content section 11.3)

    • understanding of and ability to write imperative (procedural) programming code that uses variables, constructs, procedures and functions. See details in AS content.

  • Object-oriented programming (OOP)

    • understanding of the terminology associated with OOP (including objects, properties, methods, classes, inheritance, polymorphism, containment (aggregation), encapsulation, getters, setters, instances)

    • understanding of how to solve a problem by designing appropriate classes

    • understanding of and ability to write code that demonstrates the use of OOP

  • Declarative programming

    • understanding of and ability to solve a problem by writing appropriate facts and rules based on supplied information

    • understanding of and ability to write code that can satisfy a goal using facts and rules

The specification in 20.1 requires you to know and understand the requirements from unit 11 (11.3). They will not be covered in any detail here.

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