PseudoCode is an artificial and informal language that helps programmers develop algorithms. Pseudocode is a "text-based" detail (algorithmic) design tool.

The rules of Pseudocode are reasonably straightforward. All statements showing "dependency" are to be indented. These include while, do, for, if, switch. Examples below will illustrate this notion.

Examples:

1..

IF student's grade is greater than or equal to 60
Print "passed"
ELSE
Print "failed"

2..

Set total to zero
Set grade counter to one
WHILE grade counter is less than or equal to ten
        INPUT from KEYBOARD the next grade
        Add the grade into the total
        SET the class average to the total divided by ten
        MESSAGE BOX class average to SCREEN

3..

SET total to zero
SET counter to zero
INPUT FROM KEYBOARD the first grade
    WHILE the user has not as yet entered the sentinel
    ADD this grade into the running total
    ADD one to the grade counter
    INPUT the next grade (possibly the sentinel)
       IF the counter is not equal to zero
            set the average to the total divided by the counter
            print the average
       ELSE
print 'no grades were entered'  

4..

Initialize passes to zero
Initialize failures to zero
initialize student to one
    WHILE student counter is less than or equal to ten
    input the next exam result
       IF the student passed
        add one to passes
    ELSE
        add one to failures
        add one to student counter
        print the number of passes
        print the number of failures
            IF eight or more students passed
            print "raise tuition"

Some Keywords That Should be Used

For looping and selection, The keywords that are to be used include

• Do While...EndDo;

  Do Until...Enddo;

• Case...EndCase;

•  If...Endif;

• Call ... with (parameters);

• Call;

• Return ....;

• Return;

• When;