Software paradigms and a small introduction to ASM

The 4 paradigms

• Structured programming
• Object-oriented programming
• Functional programming
• Logic programming

The concepts

1. assignment
2. iteration
3. abstraction
   • High-level and low-level
4. record
5. classes
6. immutability
7. recursion

The software

• TOY assembler (Visual-X-Toy, princeton.edu, JAR)
• x86 assembler (Intel, intel.com, PDF)
• C (gcc, gnu.org)
• pascal (Free Pascal Compiler, freepascal.org)
• C# (Mono project, mono-project.com)
  C# shell (C# shell, mono-project.com)
• Haskell (The Glasgow Haskell Compiler, haskell.org)
• Clojure (clojure.org)
• Scala (scala-lang.org)
• Prolog (SWI Prolog, swi-prolog.org)
• python (CPython, python.org)

Materials

• Slides: viktring12.pdf (~700KB, last update 01.03.2012, PDF)
• sourcecodes of examples shown in the presentation
• For more educational examples of mentioned programming languages, check out my snippets page.

Copyright

• Icons shown in the slides are part of the "Dropline Neu!" package at art.gnome.org.
• Programming languages logos are taken from their website.