🔮 Pseudocode

Pseudocode is a plain-language way to describe algorithms and logic without worrying about programming syntax.

It’s ideal for planning, teaching, and auditing workflows.

🛠️ Features

✅ Best Practices

• START and END to denote blocks of code
  • The start and end of the whole code
  • The start and end of functions, loops and conditionals (e.g. FUNCTION … END FUNCTION, FOR … END FOR, IF … END IF)
• DECLARE for introducing new variables (e.g., DECLARE x)
• SET for assigning values to variables (e.g., SET x to 5)
• NOT, AND, OR for readable logic operators
• MOD, DIV for readable arithmetic operators
• IF, ELSE, ELSE IF for conditionsls
• WHILE, FOR, IN, OF for looping (e.g. FOR each item IN list, FOR key IN dictionary)
• REPEAT ... UNTIL condition can alternatively be used
• EXIT/BREAK to leave the loop early, CONTINUE to skip to the next iteration
• INPUT/OUTPUT or PRINT to define user input and function output
• // for comments, to explain non-obvious steps
• TRY, CATCH, RAISE ERROR for error-handling
• FUNCTION (params) and RETURN to define reusable logic
• CALL to invoke a function
• Avoid data types, semicolons, or language-specific syntax
• Use indentation and spacing for readability
• Use section headers (// --- Section Name ---) for long logic blocks

🌸 Example

// --- Function Definition ---
FUNCTION computeAverage(sum, quantity)
  TRY
    IF quantity == 0 THEN
      RAISE ERROR "Division by zero"
    ELSE
      SET average to sum DIV quantity
      PRINT "Average of even numbers: " + average
    END IF
  CATCH error
    PRINT "Error: " + error
  END TRY
END FUNCTION

START
  // --- Input ---
  INPUT numberList

  // --- Processing ---
  DECLARE total
  DECLARE count
  SET total to 0
  SET count to 0

  FOR each number IN numberList
    IF number MOD 2 == 0 THEN
      SET total to total + number
      SET count to count + 1
    END IF
  END FOR

  // --- Output ---
  IF count == 0 THEN
    PRINT "No even numbers found."
  ELSE
    CALL computeAverage(total, count)
  END IF
END