Introduction

Introduction to Software Engineering (CSSE 1001)

Author

Paul Vrbik

Published

March 13, 2025

What is a computer

Programming Languages

There are a myriad of languages with wildly differing philosophies that we can to issue instructions to the machine. These philosophies or “paradigms” broadly fall into four categories.

Declarative

Functional

Imperative

Sequence
Selection
Iterations

Object Oriented

This course is an introduction to imperative and object oriented programming.