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Jcol — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:32:52 +0000

Getting into coding just for fun. I've been working through lessons and Codecademy and this is my first project for development basics.

This is the project info and objectives In this project, you will design a pattern searching algorithm. This is a commonly used algorithm that searches for a specific value within a larger set of data. For example, we can use this algorithm to search for a word in a specific body of text, like a dictionary.
This algorithm could also be used in the workplace. Imagine you had to search through thousands of logs to find ones that contained the word "ERROR" in it. Instead of searching log by log, you could implement a program that speeds up this process.
The logs are filled with statements such as:
"ERROR: Invalid function arguments"
If you search the word "ERROR", it would be found in the log, but if you searched for the word "Hello", it would be not.
Project Objectives:
Design the steps of an algorithm.
Convert the steps into a full flowchart.
Turn the flowchart into pseudocode.

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