It's one thing to ask people to right syntactically correct code. It's another thing to ask them to write pseudocode in whatever language they please and unders

It's one thing to ask people to right syntactically correct code. It's another thing to ask them to write pseudocode in whatever language they please and understanding their process. At the end of the day, as Hal Abelson said, computer science is not about computers, or science. It's about being able to formalize process.