Labels:book | hakham | monitor | sky OCR: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING 689 SECTION Procedural Programming EARLY APPROACHES to computer programming were based on writing step-by-step instructions fo the computer to follow. This technique still in widespread use today and provides an easy starting point for learning what programming is all about. In this section, the examples are written BASIC because it is one of fthe easiest programming languages to grasp. ALGORITHMS What is procedural programming? The traditional approach to pro- TIP gramming uses procedural paradigm (sometimes called ar imperative paradigm) conceptualize the solution to 6 problem as sequence This chapter presents some steps. program written in a procedural language typically consists of self- fairly technical material. contained instructions in sequence that indicates h ...
