Programming Paradigms, Turing Completeness and Computational Thinking
Programming Paradigms, Turing Completeness and Computational Thinking Greg Michaelson Submission date: 2019-01-28 Abstract The notion of programming paradigms, with associated programming languages and methodologies, is a well established tenet of Computer Science pedagogy, enshrined in international curricula. However,this notion sits ill with Kuhn’s classic conceptualisation of a scientific paradigm as a dominant world view, which supersedes its predecessors through superior explanatory power. Furthermore, it is not at all clear how programming paradigms are to be characterised and differ...
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