We were taught to create things called flowcharts. Then we moved to writing algorithms, which was just writing the program in your natural language (english for me).
If you did it correctly, you could easily pick whatever programming language you wanted and type it up. Most of the time your errors were just typos, and not logic errors.
We did this when I started college in 2005. One class was pure flow charts and Warnier/Orr Diagrams(and the professor of the class wrote the book for the class, so, generally, he was right), the next class we had to diagram out all our C programs before writing a line of code. Then we finally got into OO programming and the diagrams kinda went out the window.
Way back in the dark ages... (Score:0)
We were taught to create things called flowcharts. Then we moved to writing algorithms, which was just writing the program in your natural language (english for me).
If you did it correctly, you could easily pick whatever programming language you wanted and type it up. Most of the time your errors were just typos, and not logic errors.
Re:Way back in the dark ages... (Score:1)