Pseudo-code I think is like "sketching" an algorithm. It doesn't have to be precise it just needs to produce a "picture", the big ideas, that give us the charac

Pseudo-code I think is like "sketching" an algorithm. It doesn't have to be precise it just needs to produce a "picture", the big ideas, that give us the characteristics of the algorithm being described. Thus pseudo-code makes it easier to understand an algorithm. It should be intuitive, like a picture, so it is trivial to understand what it depicts. I've often wondered why algorithms are described in pseudo-code and not in any actual programming language. The above is my best answer so far to that question.