As for books, I liked a lot Niklaus Wirth's "Algorithms + data structures = programs" a couple geological eras back. The book was written with Pascal in mind before the OOP era, but given Pascal's simplicity its examples can be easily translated in other languages. I'd consider more modern books if I knew any; the very few I've briefly skimmed in the past seem either too advanced or too abstract.
Pseudocode isn't perfect though. It's prone to off-by-one errors among other issues. You end up having to describe the specifics of your "flavour" of pseudocode and at that point you've just made a language.. except it's not well thought out and isn't executable anywhere.
TL,DR Just use a language designed for readability, like Python.
The idea of this book is not be a 10th version explaining the same algorithms. It is as more about how to implement those algorithms for real — production-level stuff, so to say. And pseudocode isn't an implementation language, you will not face the same difficulties, and not get to feel the tools
squarefoot|6 years ago
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks
As for books, I liked a lot Niklaus Wirth's "Algorithms + data structures = programs" a couple geological eras back. The book was written with Pascal in mind before the OOP era, but given Pascal's simplicity its examples can be easily translated in other languages. I'd consider more modern books if I knew any; the very few I've briefly skimmed in the past seem either too advanced or too abstract.
Datenstrom|6 years ago
IGI-111|6 years ago
okaleniuk|6 years ago
It takes some time to get used to reading s-expressions, but it's not that hard at all.
cameronbrown|6 years ago
TL,DR Just use a language designed for readability, like Python.
vseloved|6 years ago
drainyard|6 years ago
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