03 CS1 Unit 2 - Lesson 3

This document covers programming environments and the evolution of programming models, highlighting the use of text editors and integrated development environments (IDEs) for coding. It discusses the advantages of IDEs, such as syntax highlighting and debugging tools, and contrasts procedural programming with object-oriented programming paradigms. The document also includes assessment tasks related to text editors and programming paradigms.

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03 CS1 Unit 2 - Lesson 3

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CS 1 – Programming

Logic Formulation
Unit 2: Computers and Programming
Lesson 3: Programming and User Environment, Evolution of Programming Models
Learning Outcome

Acquainted with programming and

user environment and with the
evolution of programming models
Programming
Environments
Programming Environments
When you plan the logic for a computer program, you can
use paper and pencil to create a flowchart, or you might
use software that allows you to manipulate flowchart
shapes. If you choose to write pseudocode, you can do so
by hand or by using a word-processing program. To enter
the program into a computer so you can translate and
execute it, you usually use a keyboard to type program
statements into an editor.
Editor
•We can type a program into one of the following:

•A plain text editor

•A text editor that is part of an integrated

development environment (IDE)
Text Editor
A text editor is a program that you use to create
simple text files. It is similar to a word processor,
but without as many features. We can use a text
editor such as Notepad that is included with
Microsoft Windows. An advantage to using a simple
text editor to type and save a program is that the
completed program does not require much disk
space for storage.
Sample Codes in Notepad
Text Editor in IDEs
We can use the editor of an integrated
development environment (IDE) to enter your
program. An IDE is a software package that
provides an editor, compiler, and other
programming tools. For example, the Microsoft
Visual Studio IDE, an environment that contains
tools useful for creating programs in Visual Basic,
C++, and C#.
Sample Codes in Visual Studio IDE
Advantages of an IDE
Using an IDE is helpful to programmers because IDEs
usually provide features similar to those you find in many
word processors. In particular, an IDE’s editor commonly
includes such features as the following:
• It uses different colors to display various language
components, making elements like data types easier to
identify.
• It highlights syntax errors visually for you.
Advantages of an IDE (Cont.)
• It employs automatic statement completion; when
you start to type a statement, the IDE suggests a
likely completion, which you can accept with a
keystroke.
• It provides tools that allow you to step through a
program’s execution one statement at a time so you
can more easily follow the program’s logic and
determine the source of any errors.
User Environments
User Environments
A user might execute a program you have written in any number
of environments. For example, a user might execute the number
doubling program from a command line. A command line is a
location on your computer screen at which you type text entries
to communicate with the computer’s operating system. Many
programs are not run at the command line in a text environment,
but are run using a graphical user interface, or GUI
(pronounced “gooey”), which allows users to interact with a
program in a graphical environment.
Sample Command Line Interface (CLI)
Sample GUI
Understanding the
Evolution
of Programming Models
Early Programming Models

•People have been writing modern computer

programs since the 1940s. The oldest
programming languages required
programmers to work with memory addresses
and to memorize awkward codes associated
with machine languages.
Early Programming Models (Cont.)

•The oldest computer programs were written

in one piece, from start to finish, but modern
programs are rarely written that way—they are
created by teams of programmers, each
developing reusable and connectable program
procedures.
Two Major Models or Paradigms
• Currently, two major models or paradigms are used
by programmers to develop programs and their
procedures. One technique, procedural
programming, focuses on the procedures that
programmers create. Object-oriented
programming, focuses on objects, or “things,”
and describes their features (or attributes) and their
behaviors.
Procedural Paradigm
The procedural programmers focus on the actions
that are carried out—for example, getting input data
for an employee and writing the calculations needed
to produce a paycheck from the data. Procedural
programmers would approach the job of producing
a paycheck by breaking down the process into
manageable subtasks.
Object-oriented Paradigm
The object-oriented programmers might design a payroll
application by thinking about employees and paychecks,
and describing their attributes(e.g. employees have
names and Social Security numbers, and paychecks have
names and check amounts). Then the programmers
would think about the behaviors of employees and
paychecks, such as employees getting raises and adding
dependents and paychecks being calculated and output.
Assessment Tasks
1. Aside from the example given in this
lesson, list and differentiate two(2) plain
text editors and IDEs.

2. (Research) What are the advantages and

disadvantages of procedural paradigm and
object-oriented paradigm.
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