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This resource is designed as a quick revision guide for use by students during a NEA providing that internet access is allowed. It has not been endorsed by any exam boards. If you spot any mistakes, please let me know and I'll fix them asap.

Introduction

This website aims to give a quick reference for VB.NET, Python and pseudocode and is aimed primarily at teachers & students working towards a GCSE in Computer Science

VB.NET and Python are both programming languages designed to be understood and followed by computers. Pseudocode is not a programming language: it's written to be understood by humans so that they can turn it into any programming language.

Each exam board has published a document saying how they'll write pseudocode in their exams. The whole idea of syntax (a set of rules) for pseudocode is silly - it's not designed to be a programming language that is run by a computer. With this in mind, all exam boards state that you don't have to follow the syntax for 'their' version of pseudocode when you write out your own algorithms, but you should be able to understand their version of pseudocode when reading an algorithm in an exam.

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Skill
Description
Pseudocode (Edexcel)
VB.NET
Python
Pseudocode (OCR)
Pseudocode (Eduqas)
Length of a string
    

A string is some text such as "Hello"

The length of a string means how many characters (including spaces, numbers and punctuation) there are in that string

This example createa a string called name and sets it to "Bob". It counts how many characters are in that string and stores the answer (3) into a variable called l

STRING name SET name TO "Bob" INT l SET l TO LENGTH(name)
' create string variable Dim name As String name = "bob" ' count characters and store length Dim l As Integer l = LEN(name)
# create string variable name = "Bob" # count characters and store length l = len(name)
name = "Bob" l = name.length
{ not specified in eduqas pseudocode reference }

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