Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Pseudocode

Despite the power and ease of flowcharting, some companies prefer another method for logic description called pseudocode. Pseudocode, sometimes called structured English, is a method of writing logic using sentences of text instead of the diagrams necessary for flowcharting.

Flowcharts take a long time to draw and a lot of paper doing so. Even though you can buy flowcharting programs, they are often limited and do not offer the flexibility that a lot of programming logic needs. Therefore, you must often resort to drawing flowcharts by hand. When you finish a flowchart and realize that you left out two critical symbols, you have to redraw much of the flowchart. Because of their nature, flowcharts take lots of time to draw, and some ...