How can you teach programming paradigms to other developers?

Let us agree that every student is different - for that matter, so is every teacher. So I don't believe a single answer fits. When I teach some of the languages, if its a beginner audience, I start with hands-on coding starting from a blank file and writing a simple "hello world" program. For the next hour or so, the discussion is generally around that - so that the basics are ingrained. If its an experienced audience, I start with concepts, essentially new paradigms - for example patterns in Java. Yep, this is slightly contrary to the usual practice, I agree, but I have found this pragmatic in my experience. My 2 cents!

Except that programming paradigms are fixed rules and the longer you program you can divide and subdivide solutions and categorize different ideas because you have experience in what people need to see when they open the files to develop for that day.

All this goes to show you that if you are a regular average person, there are many issues and hurdles to learning paradigms. However, there is the possibility that you can prepare people before they start programming and choosing in paradigms to actually choose the paradigm correctly on their own, and in that case, you may find yourself out of a job, trying to teach someone and the hands-on or practice, naturally teaches the learner to pick exactly what they need. This has often been my experience, and I am often find myself watching people teach themselves.

I never teach based on the strengths or weaknesses, using the keywords that you normally see. It is almost as if you are teaching someone how to write so that other people understand and using very basic words.

In my experience, that paradigms outcomes are never even evaluated with strengths, weaknesses, profitability, reusability maintainability being calculated this turns out to only be a guessing game with the learner and any managers.

I will discuss the dynamic nature of the programming industry, which has led to the blending of different programming paradigms in a single environment. As an illustration, consider the Kotlin programming language, which adeptly combines Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming paradigms. This amalgamation of paradigms has become increasingly prevalent due to the rapidly evolving demands and complexities of the software development landscape.

While this is a good thing that different programming paradigms are merging together to create multi usage languages but in the long run it really is a nuanced approach for modern application development. More and more developers have to be cognizant of the fact that they don't over utilise or under utilise one paradigm over another. Earlier that wasn't the case which is making solution architecture more and more subjective than it was earlier.