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Discussion on: Could you explain #likeimfive Psuedocode & its purpose?

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tux0r

Pseudocode is for explaining algorithms without having to know any programming language. (That may be one of the reasons why Python adopted many pseudocode conventions for syntax.)

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Ben Halpern

Yeah. Not quite code, not quite humanspeak. I might use basic programming concepts like loops, or perhaps recursion, but speaking in general terms instead of getting caught up in the details of executable code.