procedural programming


procedural programming

[prə‚sē·jə·rəl ′prō‚gram·iŋ] (computer science) A list of instructions telling a computer, step-by-step, what to do, usually having a linear order of execution from the first statement to the second and so forth with occasional loops and branches. Procedural programming languages include C, C++, Fortran, Pascal, and Basic.