Syllabus versus curriculum

This article concerns the relationship between a syllabus and a curriculum.

Analogy: declarative versus imperative programming

In computer science, programming languages are categorized into various programming paradigms.

Two these paradigms -- declarative programming, and imperative programming -- are analogous to syllabi and curricula, respectively:

Syllabus is to declarative programming

as

Curriculum is to imperative programming

See also

• Analogy
• Curriculum
• Declarative programming
• Education
• Imperative programming
• Programming paradigm
• Syllabus