A programming paradigm in which a program is expressed as an explicit sequence of statements that change a program's state step by step, describing how a computation should proceed rather than only what result it should produce.
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Core PrincipleA program describes how it operates step by step, as commands executed in the order set by the placement of statements in the source code. 1 Connections
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Imperative programming focuses on describing how a program operates step by step (the order of the steps being generally determined in source code by the placement of statements one below the other).
Associated With: Declarative Programming, Lead section, contrast with declarative programming
The term is often used in contrast to declarative programming
In Group: Core Programming Paradigms, Lead
In computer science, imperative programming is a software programming paradigm that provides specific instructions for how computations should take place.
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