program paradigms

Procedural Programming:
Decide which procedures you want; use the best algorithms you can find.

Modular Programming
Decide which modules you want; partition the program so that data is hidden within modules.

Object-Oriented Programming
Decide which classes you want; provide a full set of operations for each class;make commonality explicit by using inheritance

Generic Programming
Decide which algorithms you want; parameterize them so that they work for a variety of suitable types and data structures.