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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition
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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

by Julie Anderson, Herve J. Franceschi
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1288 pages
39h 39m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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1.5 An Introduction to Programming 23
(pronounced sue dough code) to help them design the flow of control
before writing the code.
1.5.2 Program Design with Pseudocode
Pseudocode, from pseudo, which means “appearing like,” is a method for
expressing a program’s order of instructions in English language, rather
than a programming language. In this way, the programmer can concen-
trate on designing a program without also being bogged down in the syn-
tax of the particular programming language.
The pseudocode for calculating the sum of two numbers would look like
Example 1.1.
read first number
read second number
set total to (first number + second number) ...
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ISBN: 9780763749637