Pseudocode
IF...THEN...ELSE...ENDIF
A customer has a bank balance.
The customer can withdraw money as long as it does not exceed the balance.
If the customer tries to withdraw more money than the balance an error message appears.
Pseudocode
balance ← 1000
PRINT "How much money do you want to withdraw?"
withdraw ← USERINPUT
IF balance-withdraw < 0 THEN
PRINT "You do not have enough money!"
ELSE
PRINT "Please take your money."
balance ← balance - withdraw
PRINT "Your new balance is ", balance
ENDIF
Check out the pseudocode - yes, it is pretending to be code, but it's not really.
Notice anything wierd?
There is a ←
What does this represent in pseudocode?
Notice the structure of an if statement. It is quite different from Python or Java or Ruby:
IF condition THEN
...
ELSE
...
ENDIF
and look at how input is expressed in pseudocode:
withdraw ← USERINPUT