Everything about Procedural programming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Procedural programmingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Probabilistic Logic Programming Semantics For Procedural Content GenerationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research projectThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Partitioning procedures for solving mixed-variables programming problemsCited 3,283 times
5. Go sideways: Programming paradigmA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: List of programming languages by typeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Partitioning procedures for solving mixed-variables programming problems

  J. F. Benders · 1962 · Numerische Mathematik · 3,283 citations

• Answer Set Programming for Procedural Content Generation: A Design Space Approach

  Adam M. Smith, Michael Mateas · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games · 107 citations

• Designing a Programming Game to Improve Children’s Procedural Abstraction Skills in Scratch

  Simon P. Rose, M. P. Jacob Habgood, Tim Jay · 2020 · Journal of Educational Computing Research · 34 citations

• Grid Services Base Library: A high-level, procedural application programming interface for writing Globus-based Grid services

  Adam L. Bazinet, Daniel S. Myers, John Fuetsch · 2007 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 33 citations

• 0–1 integer programming model for procedural separation of aircraft by ground holding in ATFM

  Metin Ozgur, Aydan Cavcar · 2014 · Aerospace Science and Technology · 22 citations

• Cognitive Differences Between Procedural Programming and Object Oriented Programming

  Garry White, Marcos Sivitanides · 2005 · Information Technology and Management · 12 citations

• Declarative Knowledge Programming: Better Than Procedural?

  Marshall I. Schor · 1986 · IEEE Expert · 11 citations

• A feature model of actor, agent, functional, object, and procedural programming languages

  Howell Jordan, Goetz Botterweck, John Noll · 2015 · Science of Computer Programming · 10 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Probabilistic Logic Programming Semantics For Procedural Content Generation

  Abdelrahman Madkour, Chris Martens, Steven Holtzen · 2023 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment · 3 citations

• A Comparative Study of Object-Oriented, Procedural, and Functional Programming Paradigms in Microservice Architecture

  Mustafa Ahmed Khan, Syed Shabeeb Raza, Khalid Mahboob · 2025 · VFAST Transactions on Software Engineering · 3 citations

• Students’ procedural knowledge on simplex method in linear programming: An explanatory sequential design

  Louie Resti Sandoval Rellon, Jeramie Castillo Corsonado · 2024 · Indonesian Journal of Science and Mathematics Education · 1 citations

• PROCEDURAL GENERATION IN 2D METROIDVANIA GAME WITH ANSWER SET PROGRAMMING AND PERLIN NOISE

  John Xu, John Morris · 2023 · International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications · 1 citations

• AI as a Procedural Equalizer: Performance Comparison in Programming-Based Engineering Coursework Following the Emergence of Generative AI

  Ghazal Barari, Jorge Ortega-Moody, Kouroush Jenab · 2026 · Applied Sciences · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research projectThomas E. Pinelli · 1990
• 4th of JulyJames Patterson, Maxine Paetro · 1947
• Step on a CrackJames Patterson, Michael Ledwidge · 1658
• BurnJames Patterson, Michael Ledwidge · 2014
• Gideon's trumpetLewis, Anthony · 1964
• VigilanteStephen J. Cannell · 2011
• Algorithms and data structuresJeffrey H. Kingston, Jeffrey Kingston · 1990
• Computer-aided exercises on civil procedureRoger Park · 1976

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