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Procedural Programming Languages

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Procedural Programming Languages

Procedural languages are the most common type of programming language.

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Procedural languages

  • Procedural languages have become more popular.
  • Procedural languages now have many libraries of pre-compiled code to use.
    • This speeds up the programming process.
  • Netflix use the python programming language to manage their systems.
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Data types and structures

  • Procedural languages have built in basic data types such as strings, integers, real numbers, boolean and char.
  • Procedural languages also have advanced data structures such as arrays, stacks and queues.
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Procedures

  • Procedural language programs are built up of procedures that perform an action.
  • The procedures are reusable and make it quicker to program.

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1Components of a Computer

2Software & Software Development

3Exchanging Data

4Data Types, Data Structures & Algorithms

5Legal, Moral, Cultural & Ethical Issues

6Elements of Computational Thinking

6.1Thinking Abstractly

6.2Thinking Ahead

6.3Thinking Procedurally

6.4Thinking Logically

6.5Thinking Concurrently

7Problem Solving & Programming

8Algorithms

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