Again, don’t get to hung up on the syntax of pseudo-code. Use it as a tool to model your programs. Take, for example, the following program:
start the program
Find the last 10 people that entered the building
If no one has entered the building today
Terminate program
otherwise email each of the individuals and let them know about any cafeteria specials
Terminate
From the pseudo code you can tell that this program will be emailing the cafeteria specials to the first 10 people that have entered the building. Pretty handy, right? It’s a simple program that almost anyone can read, and that’s the entire purpose of using pseudo code to model a solution to a problem.
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