Planning with pseudocode
Have you ever tried to plan out your day before starting to do the things you plan to do? Think about whether you have ever done this for a large trip or whether you do so every day when you start work at your job. Planning helps you prepare for what’s to come and, in many cases, can make things such as your trip or workday successful. Programmers sometimes need to do this for complex problems they’re trying to solve. Pseudocode enables you to plan out the task you’re attempting to accomplish by writing out the computational steps in English, or any other preferred language. With no programming language, you can freely plan and document how you plan for your program to run, step by step. Unlike programming syntax, there is no “right” way to write pseudocode, and there are many guides on how to write it well, but a general rule of thumb is to not to introduce actual code into your pseudocode; save it for the actual program...