Diary Entry — Aug. 5th, 2024
Today, I got somewhat close to finishing the lecture of week 0 in CS50x, but I just… didn’t. I hate saying this, but that’s what happened.
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Today, I got somewhat close to finishing the lecture of week 0 in CS50x, but I just… didn’t. I hate saying I almost finished something. Anyway, I did finish a good part of it, and in that part, professor David J. Malan, the instructor of the course (above), starts talking about one practical medium (pun intended) where we can apply the ideas that have been covered in the lecture so far.
Week 0 Continued: Almost Done With Lecture
Pseudocode
When I picked up where I left off yesterday in the lecture, professor Malan started talking about how we can translate our ideas into something a computer can do. However, he first starts talking about pseudocode, which he claims has no formal meaning although I looked it up to check its spelling and it had a definition in Oxford Languages, and I reckon this counts as formal acknowledgement of the term. As professor Malan explains, pseudocode can be written in any human…
