OCR A Level Computer Science

1.2.4a: Need for and characteristics of a variety of programming paradigms.

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Keyword	Definition
Low-level programming languages	Programming languages that are designed to be close to the hardware and to provide an efficient representation of a computer program.
Object-oriented programming	A programming paradigm that is based on the idea of using objects and classes to represent data and behaviour, and of using inheritance and polymorphism to reuse and extend code.
Procedural programming	A programming paradigm that is based on the idea of using procedures or subroutines to modularize a program, and of using control structures such as loops and conditional statements to specify the order in which the procedures should be executed.
Programming paradigm	The style or approach to programming that is based on different assumptions, concepts, and principles used to solve different types of problems using a programming language

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