Out with the Old and in with the New
Out with the Old and in with the NewDarrell J. BradfordProfessor Michael KoltaCIS 110 Computer Program DesignSeptember 7, 2014As the needs of computer programming have advance, it is still important to understand the beginnings of programming.  From the 1960s and 70s, procedural programming was the model to use. Languages such as FORTRAN, Pascal, BASIC, and C utilized such a programming style.  The primary purpose of procedural programming is to act as a list of commands that tells a computer what to do step by step.  Here, you run a program, that program runs through its lines of code, and then you get an output.  As a result, one has to keep the data and the operations on the data separate. These steps are contained in a procedure. “The design method used in procedural programming is called Top Down Design.  This is where you start with a problem (procedure) and then systematically break the problem down into sub problems (sub procedures)” (
As one can figure out, the main focal point of object-oriented programming are known as “objects.” Per the Education Portal, “An object is a component of a program that knows how to perform certain actions and how to interact with other elements of the program” (