Something purely philosophical: functional programming is not “imperative programming but less”. You see, it’s really tempting to describe functional programming by comparing it to ...

And Wesley Fryer, in his Tech Learning blog is not breaking new ground here by proclaiming that all students need a "basic understanding and practical knowledge of rudimentary programming." ...

Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do, using imperative programming, to describing what they should be, using declarative programming.

Programming paradigms are mainly divided into “imperative programming” and “functional programming.” The dichotomy isn’t clear-cut, as a growing number of languages support both styles ...

Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a long list of commands (instructions). In imperative programming, you write your code the way you ...

This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective. A Java developer must also ...

Some languages attempt to box you into the functional programming style, while others encourage but don’t force the issue. Then there are the more traditional imperative languages that allow you ...

Why is this unit important? This unit provides an introduction to imperative and functional programming, which are two of the fundamental paradigms of programming. They form together with ...

Called ArnoldC—see what he did there?—it’s “an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from different Schwarzenegger movies.” Yes, really.