Pseudocode?! Whats this?!

[LauroBezerra]

Hi, guys!!!


It´s me again!

Please, somebody can show me an example of pseudocode of computer programming?

What is this?
Teatch me what is.
When do I have to use pseudocode?

Thanks!!!

 

[edstud]

It is not that difficult to understand,
it is just the stuff in between a flow diagram and your actual programing code, you usually put this on coments once you are writing stuff.
The pseudocode helps you to know where you are.

Example.

! program compute DFT

call readdata
call readorbitals
call readoptions

Start loop 1
Start loop 2
call solution hamiltonian
call diagonalize
check convergence
Go back loop1, until convergence = ok
call next steep
go back loop2
Start loop 3
call molecular dynamics
go back loop 3, until ok

end program


to this stage i can write my program in any language. easy uh?, the pseudocode is the stuff you have on mind while writing. individual instructions is just ...wording

Ed

 

[lionelhill]

You make up pseudocode as you go along. It's just when you want to explain a concept, a computing method, or something to someone else, sometimes it helps to write it out in a way that looks like a piece of program, but isn't tied to the syntax of a particular language. After all, the important thing is to appreciate that there is a loop, for example, and not to get bogged down in how C writes a loop.

 

[aboujouj83]

You usually use pseudocodes when you want to show an algorithm or explain a data flow. Remember that coding shouldn't be an early step of designing...planing should come before, and there, you usually need to use pseudocodes
Aboujouj

 

[victorv]

Our teacher invented the

APL

"A Programming Language"

It was a mixture of Fortran,Cobol,Pascal,anf french-fries.

We students gave to P another interpretation but
I cannot translate (in English does'not begin with P and is out of Policy of the forum).

bye