need help writing pseudocode
input origprice
set discount = price * 0.20
set finalprice = origprice - discount
output final
stop
marylw24 0 Newbie Poster
Hiroshe 499 Posting Whiz in Training
Oh, the mods would have moved it for you! (or you could have PM'd one)
As I said in my last post:
The only problem I see with your pseudocode is that price should be written as origprice.
deceptikon 1,790 Code Sniper Team Colleague Featured Poster
need help writing pseudocode
You've already done it. Barring a minor inconsistency where you create one variable name but use another (ie. origprice/price and finalprice/final), what you've posted is legitimate pseudocode.
marylw24 0 Newbie Poster
was the pseudocode put in the right order because I wasn't sure thats why I was trying to get hlp with this one I thought I did something very wrong.
marylw24 0 Newbie Poster
so once I moved the price origPrice the whole code would have been in the correct format
deceptikon 1,790 Code Sniper Team Colleague Featured Poster
was the pseudocode put in the right order because I wasn't sure thats why I was trying to get hlp with this one I thought I did something very wrong.
Nope, it looks good. Once you fix the "semantic" errors it's solid logic:
input origprice
set discount = origprice * 0.20
set finalprice = origprice - discount
output finalprice
stop
You could simplify the language by removing the set keyword and assuming that the end of the file is equivalent to a stop keyword:
input origprice
discount = origprice * 0.20
finalprice = origprice - discount
output finalprice
Or by combining the variables into a single expression:
input origprice
output ((origprice * 0.20) - discount)
But all in all, what you have is fine.
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