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  • Minotaur@lemm.eetoProgrammer Humor@programming.devExam Answer
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    3 months ago

    I think you’re missing the forest for the trees here pretty heavily.

    Yes, Python has some goofy aspects about managing it while performing high level, in depth tasks.

    This is a post and a comment chain about pseudocode being taught to people who likely just learned what a “programming language” was several weeks ago. Essentially no one taking the GCSE knows what “bash-like scripts” even means.


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    3 months ago

    I’m very much guessing that this is just supposed to be a type of pseudocode given the context and vagueness of it.

    It’s a big reason why I really dont like pseudocode as instruction to people learning the basics of what programming is. It made more sense 20 years ago when programming languages were on a whole a lot more esoteric and less plain text, but now with simple languages like Python there’s simply little reason to not just write Python code or whatever.

    I took an intro to programming class in College and the single thing I got dinged on the most is “incorrect pseudocode”, which was either too formal and close to real code or too casual and close to plain English.

    It’s not a great system. We really need to get rid of it as a practice