different paradigms of programming:

- procedural
divide the problem into small parts
write a function for each
- functional
concept of functions in math
result of fn depends on the argument only
- generic programming
develop flexible programs - work on different types
- logical programming
based propositional logic, predicate calculus
- object based
abstraction
encapsulation
composition
- Object oriented
abstraction
encapsulation
composition
inheritance
polymorphism