Imperative languages

• In the imperative paradigm, programmers will solve a problem by writing a set of instructions that state how a problem should be solved. Both the terms imperative and procedural are used to describe this subset of languages, but procedural specifically describes a language used to write programs that can be split into procedures (or subroutines).
• For high-level imperative languages there are libraries of functions that can be imported to solve specific problems. For example in Python, one of the things a programmer can do with the random module (library) is to generate a random number — without needing to know exactly how that random number is generated when the code is executed.