Everything about Programming paradigm

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Programming paradigmA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Predicting Rock Brittleness Using a Robust Evolutionary Programming Paradigm and Regression-Based Feature Selection ModelInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Qualitative Approaches to Evaluation in EducationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programmeCited 4,413 times
5. Go sideways: Procedural programmingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: List of programming languages by typeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme

  S. J. Gould, R. C. Lewontin · 1979 · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences · 4,413 citations

• Trouble in Paradigm: “Gender Transformative” Programming in Violence Prevention

  Lisa D. Brush, Elizabeth Miller · 2019 · Violence Against Women · 73 citations

• SELF-EXPLANATORY COMPONENTS: A NEW PROGRAMMING PARADIGM

  NIKOLAY MIRENKOV, ALEXANDER VAZHENIN, RENTARO YOSHIOKA · 2001 · International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 31 citations

• Toward an Ecological Paradigm in Adventure Programming

  Almut Beringer · 2004 · Journal of Experiential Education · 31 citations

• The Answer Set Programming Paradigm

  Tomi Janhunen, Ilkka Niemelä · 2016 · AI Magazine · 24 citations

• The literate-programming paradigm

  D. Cordes, M. Brown · 1991 · Computer · 20 citations

• ScriptEase: A generative/adaptive programming paradigm for game scripting

  Maria Cutumisu, Curtis Onuczko, Matthew McNaughton · 2007 · Science of Computer Programming · 19 citations

• Weighted programming: a programming paradigm for specifying mathematical models

  Kevin Batz, Adrian Gallus, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski · 2022 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 17 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Predicting Rock Brittleness Using a Robust Evolutionary Programming Paradigm and Regression-Based Feature Selection Model

  Mehdi Jamei, Ahmed Salih Mohammed, Iman Ahmadianfar · 2022 · Applied Sciences · 24 citations

• MetaClassroom: A New Paradigm and Experience for Programming Education

  Chengliang Wang, Xiaojiao Chen, Yifei Li · 2025 · Journal of Educational Computing Research · 15 citations

• A Digital Twin-based paradigm for programming and control of cooperating robots in reconfigurable production systems

  Dimosthenis Dimosthenopoulos, Fotios Panagiotis Basamakis, Christos Glykos · 2024 · International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing · 14 citations

• Preliminary Evidence to Support a De-Escalated Cochlear Implant Programming Paradigm for New Adult Recipients: A Systematic Review

  James R. Dornhoffer, Karl R. Khandalavala, Teresa A. Zwolan · 2023 · Journal of Clinical Medicine · 13 citations

• Augmented reality spatial programming paradigm applied to end-user robot programming

  Michal Kapinus, Vítězslav Beran, Zdeněk Materna · 2024 · Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 11 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Qualitative Approaches to Evaluation in EducationDavid M. Fetterman · 1988
• 📕Programming Paradigms in Graphics '95Remco C. Veltkamp, Edwin H. Blake · 1995
• Affix positions and cooccurrencesJoseph Evans Grimes · 1983
• 📕Affix positions and coocurrencesJoseph Evans Grimes · 1983

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