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Pseudocodes Notations

This is suitable for IB Students taking Computer Science HL and SL. It provides notations used in the theory of IB.

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Pseudocodes Notations

This is suitable for IB Students taking Computer Science HL and SL. It provides notations used in the theory of IB.

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Diploma Programme

Approved notation for developing


pseudocode

International Baccalaureate Organization 2012

Approved notation for developing pseudocode


When developing pseudocode teachers must use the symbols below, which are those used in
mathematics.
This information should be distributed to candidates as close as possible to the commencement of teaching
of the course. This notation sheet will be available to candidates during the external examinations.
Conventions

Variable names are all capitals, for example, CITY


Pseudocode keywords are lower case, for example, loop, if
Method names are mixed case, for example, getRecord
Methods are invoked using the dot notation used in Java, C++, C#, and
similar languages, for example, BIGARRAY.binarySearch( 27 )

Variable names

These will be provided and comments // used, for example:


N = 5 // the number of items in the array
SCOREHISTORY,getExam( NUM ) // get the students score on exam NUM

Assigning a value to a
variable

Values will be assigned using = , for example:


N = 5 // indicates the array has 5 data items
VALUE[0] = 7 // assigns the first data item in the array a value of 7

Output of information

Outputthis term is sufficient to indicate the data is output to a printer,


screen, for example:
output COUNT // display the count on the screen

Symbol

Definition

Examples

is equal to

X = 4, X = K

If X = 4

>

is greater than

X>4

if X > 4 then

>=

is greater than or equal


to

X >= 6

loop while X >= 6

<

is less than

VALUE[Y] < 7

loop until VALUE[Y] < 7

<=

is less than or equal to

VALUE[] <=12

if VALUE[Y] <= 12 then

not equal to

X 4, X K

AND

logical AND

A AND B

if X < 7 AND Y > 2 then

OR

logical OR

A OR B

if X < 7 OR Y > 2 then

NOT

logical NOT

NOT A

if NOT X = 7 then

mod

modulo

15 mod 7 = 1

if VALUE[Y] mod 7 = 0 then

div

integer part of quotient

15 div 7 = 2

if VALUE[Y] div 7 = 2 then

Operation

Flowchart example

Pseudocode example

sequential
operations

perform task1
perform task1

perform task2

perform task2

conditional
operations

NO
MAX > 0?

if MAX > 0 then

YES

output positive

output positive

output not positive

else
output not positive
end if

while-loop

YES

COUNT = COUNT + 1

COUNT < 15?

loop while COUNT < 15


COUNT = COUNT + 1
end loop

NO
from/to-loop

COUNT = 0
loop COUNT from 0 to 5
SUM = SUM + COUNT

SUM = SUM + COUNT


end loop

COUNT = COUNT

COUNT > 5?

YES

+1

NO

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