Imperative versus declarative code… what’s the difference?
As a web developer you are likely using both paradigms with different code even if you may not be familiar with the terms. Programming languages tend to have multi-paradigm tendencies using both imperative and declarative syntax and I will use JavaScript to demonstrate that as well.
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Imperative paradigm
Procedural and object-oriented programming belong under imperative paradigm that you know from languages like C, C++, C#, PHP, Java and of course Assembly.
Your code focuses on creating statements that change program states by creating algorithms that tell the computer how to do things. It closely relates to how hardware works. Typically your code will make use of conditinal statements, loops and class inheritence.
Example of imperative code in JavaScript is:
class Number {
