Nassi - Shneiderman; Does anyone still actually use this?
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So there I am reading some of my old college assignments when I came across one on programming; in particular pseudo programming. One of the things that was drummed into us was that you do not code a single line until you have done the pseudo programming. OK, I can go with that, makes sense after all. However, which pseudo programming "language" to use? So, to the title of this question: does anyone still use the Nassi - Shneiderman pseudo programming technique? Notice I changed this to technique, I don't think it could, even remotely, be called a "language". For those of you who've never heard of Nassi - Shneiderman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diagram[^]
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Just another example of why people who can do and people who can't teach. :doh: It probably looked good as an academic construct, and probably even got good lab results in biased academic assignments, but in the real world there was no use for it as a formal construct. I occasionally use something like pseudo-code to demonstrate to colleagues the way an algorithm can be structured, but never for constructing an algorithm myself. Why bother when you can type the real code and see if it works, and if you are using TDD (Test Driven Design), sometimes called BDD (Behavior Driven Design), you know the results as you write the code. I start with very loose template of how the algorithm should be structured (classes, methods, etc.) and refactor until it passes all the tests resulting in the desired behavior.
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So there I am reading some of my old college assignments when I came across one on programming; in particular pseudo programming. One of the things that was drummed into us was that you do not code a single line until you have done the pseudo programming. OK, I can go with that, makes sense after all. However, which pseudo programming "language" to use? So, to the title of this question: does anyone still use the Nassi - Shneiderman pseudo programming technique? Notice I changed this to technique, I don't think it could, even remotely, be called a "language". For those of you who've never heard of Nassi - Shneiderman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diagram[^]
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I don't, but I do flowchart complex processes before coding them. Most of the time I'm able to do this in my head, but I sometimes find it helps to have a visual diagram I can tweak. /ravi
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So there I am reading some of my old college assignments when I came across one on programming; in particular pseudo programming. One of the things that was drummed into us was that you do not code a single line until you have done the pseudo programming. OK, I can go with that, makes sense after all. However, which pseudo programming "language" to use? So, to the title of this question: does anyone still use the Nassi - Shneiderman pseudo programming technique? Notice I changed this to technique, I don't think it could, even remotely, be called a "language". For those of you who've never heard of Nassi - Shneiderman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diagram[^]
You do trust me, don't you? If any love is good lovin, why is prostitution illegal?? I guess I ain't seen nothing yet.
I used to on a daily basis: at some point we were writing C-code in X32 from hitex, a nassi-schneiderman editor[^].
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So there I am reading some of my old college assignments when I came across one on programming; in particular pseudo programming. One of the things that was drummed into us was that you do not code a single line until you have done the pseudo programming. OK, I can go with that, makes sense after all. However, which pseudo programming "language" to use? So, to the title of this question: does anyone still use the Nassi - Shneiderman pseudo programming technique? Notice I changed this to technique, I don't think it could, even remotely, be called a "language". For those of you who've never heard of Nassi - Shneiderman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diagram[^]
You do trust me, don't you? If any love is good lovin, why is prostitution illegal?? I guess I ain't seen nothing yet.
Oh, hell no. Bought a pascal compiler once and the documentation was all in BNF. It was like :wtf: But at least it kinda sorta looked like code...
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So there I am reading some of my old college assignments when I came across one on programming; in particular pseudo programming. One of the things that was drummed into us was that you do not code a single line until you have done the pseudo programming. OK, I can go with that, makes sense after all. However, which pseudo programming "language" to use? So, to the title of this question: does anyone still use the Nassi - Shneiderman pseudo programming technique? Notice I changed this to technique, I don't think it could, even remotely, be called a "language". For those of you who've never heard of Nassi - Shneiderman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassi%E2%80%93Shneiderman_diagram[^]
You do trust me, don't you? If any love is good lovin, why is prostitution illegal?? I guess I ain't seen nothing yet.
I'd never do this. If a problem is simple enough to pseudo-code immediately, it's also simple enough to code immediately in a high level language – garbage collected languages almost are pseudo-code, heh. For a complex problem I will often draw class and data-flow diagrams to work out what I should do before actually starting – they often get quite a few modifications and it's quicker to change paper than code. If it's just for me I tend to put class structure and data flow on the same diagram, using colours to distinguish things, but the first version of that can get pretty messy.
