Looking for psuedo-code tutorial

[cismajor97]

Hi I'm looking for a tutorial that teaches you how to write in pseudo-code. Anyone know of a good reference site?

 

[maw]

i don't know if there is such a thing.. (is there?) when i think of pseudo-code i think in terms of something like this:

if (records exist)
 if (number of records > 20)
  split the page
 else
  show all records
else
 no records were found

basically a rough outline of the logic needed for your application without writing actual code.

 

[jmackay]

Heheheh, pseudo-code is nothing more than fake code that shows your idea.

 

[ameoba]

Heheheh, pseudo-code is nothing more than fake code that shows your idea.

Try looking here

But really, there is no formally defined "pseudocode" - pseudocode is just what you write when you want to express the core ideas of a program without bogging yourself down with the details of making it actually run properly.

 

[mikeblas]

There's no universally-defined pseud-ocode, anyway.

Some authors try to define the pseudo-code for their books. CLRS does a reasonable job, for example, and Knuth took it to the extreme by making a pseudo-machine.