• Understanding what is meant by a programming paradigm
• Show understanding of the characteristics of a number of programming paradigms: • Low-level • Imperative (Procedural) • Object Oriented • Declarative
  • 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/attributes, 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