Converting flowchart to pseudocode

[jedishrfu]

Don't leave it empty put in your best guess, you may be right (maybe the prof is searching for the answer to the conundrum himself and waiting for that one special chosen student)

You can't win if you don't play.

 

[gneill]

Since pseudo-code is supposed to evaluate each of its actions one at a time, what if we did the following? There is nothing in the flow chart that indicates which of the atomic actions it is supposed to evaluate first, and hence we would not be able to represent it in pseudo-code unless it was actually specified.

I thought "bullets" could only have one arrow out?

 

[sandy.bridge]

Yeah, you're right.

 

[sandy.bridge]

In case you're interested, the solution was merely two flows meeting up at a bullet, and then going into an atomic action.

 

[gneill]

In case you're interested, the solution was merely two flows meeting up at a bullet, and then going into an atomic action.

But with only one START allowed, where does the second flow come from? That's what we were trying so hard to gimmick up with the phantom threads created by the dangling decision blocks... Hmph.

 

[rcgldr]

In case you're interested, the solution was merely two flows meeting up at a bullet, and then going into an atomic action.

Two flows or two paths, of which only one can be taken at a time? If it's two paths, then this is the same as pseudocode containing two or more branches to the same label.

 

[Joffan]

In case you're interested, the solution was merely two flows meeting up at a bullet, and then going into an atomic action.

Professorial fail. That's easy to represent in pseudocode and a common requirement.

I don't suppose you have a diagram of this so-called impossible flowchart.

 

[sandy.bridge]

Here:

 

[gneill]

But that's trivially implemented in any pseudo code that isn't deliberately hobbled by fanatical style rules.

 

[Joffan]

FirstTest: If not wantBanana then goto SecondTest
selectFruitFromBunch
Enjoy: peelAndEatFruit
goto FirstTest
SecondTest: if wantOrange then goto Enjoy
Stop