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In the third of my blog series on paths to success, I’ve been chatting to Jay Shurey who has followed his dream to becoming a film maker and producer.
You can read the accompanying blog for this and see the trailer for Jay’s latest film here: https://teachallaboutit.school/2018/08/07/paths-to-success-film-maker-producer/
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In this first episode of the Paths to Success Season, I’ve been talking to Karen Hickton about her journey through education to owning her own business as a body language consultant to women in business.
You can read the accompanying blog to this podcast from Monday 23rd July at http://www.TeachAllAboutIT/BlogAllAboutIT www.TeachAllAboutIT.uk/BlogAllAboutIT
So what is pseudocode?
Way back when programming was simple, whole systems could be designed using a set of flowcharts and no further design was needed. This was especially useful for programming languages which were low level (close to machine code).
As languages became more complex, there developed a need to describe the logic using something which resembled natural language (how we speak, or in fact what you are reading now.). These high level languages (closer to natural language) could use a common language indepedant structured wording to describe the logic.
In short, pseudocode is structured English which describes the logic of a program.
An example:
WHILE login <> true
OUTPUT “enter your username”
INPUT to uname
OUTPUT “enter your password”
INPUT to password
IF uname = “bill” AND password = “ted”
THEN pword = true
ELSE pword = false
As you can see in the example above, your main coding blocks are very similar to the final piece of code that is produced, however no actual language syntax is used.
Need to revise the difference between a FOR and a WHILE loops? Try this video.
To take this further, have a look at the additional REPEAT, UNTIL loop.
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