Understanding Programming Paradigms

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Declarative Programming

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Focuses on what to solve

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Imperative Programming

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Focuses on how to solve

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Expert Systems

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AI systems mimicking human experts

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Declarative Example

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SQL, HTML

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Imperative Example

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C, Java

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Logic Programming

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Subset of declarative

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Procedural Programming

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Subset of imperative

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Rule-Based Systems

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Type of expert system

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Declarative Advantage

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Easier to read

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Imperative Advantage

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More control over hardware