012. AQA A Level SLR03 Characteristics of programming paradigms

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AQA Specification Reference
A Level 4.1.2.1

Programming languages fall into a number of different categories or paradigms, in this video we discuss three different types: Procedural, Object orientated and Assembly.

Key question:

- What do we mean by the term programming paradigm?

00:00 Characteristics of programming paradigms
00:06 Intro
00:11 What is a programming paradigm?
00:54 Why do we need different programming paradigms?
01:40 Low-level vs high-level languages
04:16 Evolution of programming languages/paradigms
04:51 Feature comparison of procedural vs object-oriented paradigms
06:13 Key question
06:20 Outro

Last updated: 04.09.25

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