Imperative Programming

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Table of Contents

• Imperative Programming
  • Table of Contents
  • What’s Imperative Programming
  • Languages
  • Examples
  • Ref.

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What’s Imperative Programming

Imperative programming focuses on explicitly specifying a sequence of statements that modify program state. It emphasizes how to achieve a result through step-by-step instructions and control flow structures like loops and conditionals.

Procedural programming and structured programming are subsets of imperative programming.

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Languages

Procedural and object-oriented programming (OOP) languages fall under imperative programming, such as C, C++, C#, and Java.

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Examples

The example calculates the sum of numbers from 1 to 10 using a for loop in Java.

int sum = 0;
for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
    sum += i;
}
System.out.println("Sum: " + sum);

Declarative style is a contrast to the Imperative style

• See also: Declarative Programming

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Ref.

• https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/imperative-programming#:~:text=Imperative%20programming%20is%20a%20software,models%20are%20not%20called%20on.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming

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