Chapter 7
Algorithm Design and Debugging
Developing Algorithms
As the problems we tackle become more complex, it becomes harder to quickly
write out programs to solve them, and we need to devote correspondingly more
time to planning and designing solutions as opposed to writing code. At this
stage, the difficulty is generally in designing an algorithm capable of solving
the problem.
An algorithm is just a specific sequence of steps that will solve some problem.
Prior to writing code, programmers often use pseudocode, which is a hybrid
of English (or other language) and programming code. Thinking in pseudocode
allows you to focus on how to solve the problem ...
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