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Honestly, I think I'd prefer pseudocode that I can read to understand the idea and then work in my language of choice rather than C.
by dunefox 4y ago
Honestly, I think I'd prefer pseudocode that I can read to understand the idea and then work in my language of choice rather than C.
- ethanwillis 4y agoPsuedocode means ambiguity which means misunderstandings. As soon as you remove all ambiguity any Pseudocode just becomes a language.
- dunefox 4y agoGood point, although I think it should be doable when describing input and output well enough.
- setr 4y agoThat's been delegated to the diagrams and algebra -- and there's also the usual english-psuedocode interspersed throughout the chapters (presumably more so on the theoretical chapters e.g. chapter 4)
- arinlen 4y ago> Honestly, I think I'd prefer pseudocode that I can read to understand the idea and then work in my language of choice rather than C. What stops you from understanding the idea by reading C? It's a tried-and-true language whose K&R version fits entirely in an easy to read ~180pg book which has real world applications, unlike pseudocode.
- Koshkin 4y agoC code is usually rife with unrelated technical detail like manual memory management. It also lacks ways to build useful abstractions that exist in other languages.