Elements
Structured English or "pseudocode" consists of the following elements:
- Operation statements written as English phrases executed from the top down
- Conditional blocks indicated by keywords such as IF, THEN, and ELSE
- Repetition blocks indicated by keywords such as DO, WHILE, and UNTIL
Use the following guidelines when writing Structured English:
- Statements should be clear and unambiguous
- Use one line per logical element
- All logic should be expressed in operational, conditional, and repetition blocks
- Logical blocks should be indented to show relationship
- Keywords should be capitalized
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Famous quotes containing the word elements:
“Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
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—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)