Ví dụ mã giả (pseudocode)

OUTPUT "Hello, World!"

Hello, World!

DECLARE a : INTEGER
DECLARE b : INTEGER
DECLARE total : INTEGER
a ← 12
b ← 30
total ← a + b
OUTPUT "The total is ", total

The total is 42

DECLARE n : INTEGER
n ← 17
IF n MOD 2 = 0 THEN
    OUTPUT n, " is even"
ELSE
    OUTPUT n, " is odd"
ENDIF

17 is odd

DECLARE score : INTEGER
DECLARE grade : CHAR
score ← 74
IF score >= 80 THEN
    grade ← 'A'
ELSE
    IF score >= 60 THEN
        grade ← 'B'
    ELSE
        grade ← 'C'
    ENDIF
ENDIF
OUTPUT "Score ", score, " gets grade ", grade

Score 74 gets grade B

DECLARE total : INTEGER
DECLARE i : INTEGER
total ← 0
FOR i ← 1 TO 10
    total ← total + i
NEXT i
OUTPUT "Sum of 1 to 10 is ", total

Sum of 1 to 10 is 55

DECLARE i : INTEGER
FOR i ← 1 TO 5
    OUTPUT "7 x ", i, " = ", 7 * i
NEXT i

7 x 1 = 7
7 x 2 = 14
7 x 3 = 21
7 x 4 = 28
7 x 5 = 35

DECLARE count : INTEGER
count ← 5
WHILE count > 0 DO
    OUTPUT count
    count ← count - 1
ENDWHILE
OUTPUT "Liftoff!"

5
4
3
2
1
Liftoff!

DECLARE nums : ARRAY[1:6] OF INTEGER
DECLARE i : INTEGER
DECLARE largest : INTEGER
nums[1] ← 14
nums[2] ← 3
nums[3] ← 27
nums[4] ← 9
nums[5] ← 21
nums[6] ← 6
largest ← nums[1]
FOR i ← 2 TO 6
    IF nums[i] > largest THEN
        largest ← nums[i]
    ENDIF
NEXT i
OUTPUT "The largest number is ", largest

The largest number is 27

DECLARE marks : ARRAY[1:4] OF INTEGER
DECLARE i : INTEGER
DECLARE total : INTEGER
marks[1] ← 70
marks[2] ← 85
marks[3] ← 64
marks[4] ← 91
total ← 0
FOR i ← 1 TO 4
    total ← total + marks[i]
NEXT i
OUTPUT "Average mark: ", total / 4

Average mark: 77.5

DECLARE names : ARRAY[1:5] OF STRING
DECLARE i : INTEGER
DECLARE found : BOOLEAN
names[1] ← "Ana"
names[2] ← "Ben"
names[3] ← "Chen"
names[4] ← "Dara"
names[5] ← "Eli"
found ← FALSE
i ← 1
WHILE i <= 5 AND found = FALSE DO
    IF names[i] = "Dara" THEN
        found ← TRUE
    ELSE
        i ← i + 1
    ENDIF
ENDWHILE
IF found = TRUE THEN
    OUTPUT "Dara is at position ", i
ELSE
    OUTPUT "Not found"
ENDIF

Dara is at position 4

DECLARE nums : ARRAY[1:5] OF INTEGER
DECLARE i : INTEGER
DECLARE j : INTEGER
DECLARE temp : INTEGER
nums[1] ← 5
nums[2] ← 1
nums[3] ← 4
nums[4] ← 2
nums[5] ← 8
FOR i ← 1 TO 4
    FOR j ← 1 TO 5 - i
        IF nums[j] > nums[j + 1] THEN
            temp ← nums[j]
            nums[j] ← nums[j + 1]
            nums[j + 1] ← temp
        ENDIF
    NEXT j
NEXT i
FOR i ← 1 TO 5
    OUTPUT nums[i]
NEXT i

1
2
4
5
8

FUNCTION Factorial(n : INTEGER) RETURNS INTEGER
    DECLARE result : INTEGER
    DECLARE i : INTEGER
    result ← 1
    FOR i ← 2 TO n
        result ← result * i
    NEXT i
    RETURN result
ENDFUNCTION

OUTPUT "5! = ", Factorial(5)

5! = 120

DECLARE word : STRING
DECLARE letter : CHAR
DECLARE vowels : INTEGER
DECLARE i : INTEGER
word ← "PSEUDOCODE"
vowels ← 0
FOR i ← 1 TO LENGTH(word)
    letter ← SUBSTRING(word, i, 1)
    IF letter = 'A' OR letter = 'E' OR letter = 'I' OR letter = 'O' OR letter = 'U' THEN
        vowels ← vowels + 1
    ENDIF
NEXT i
OUTPUT word, " has ", vowels, " vowels"

PSEUDOCODE has 5 vowels

DECLARE i : INTEGER
FOR i ← 1 TO 15
    IF i MOD 15 = 0 THEN
        OUTPUT "FizzBuzz"
    ELSE
        IF i MOD 3 = 0 THEN
            OUTPUT "Fizz"
        ELSE
            IF i MOD 5 = 0 THEN
                OUTPUT "Buzz"
            ELSE
                OUTPUT i
            ENDIF
        ENDIF
    ENDIF
NEXT i

1
2
Fizz
4
Buzz
Fizz
7
8
Fizz
Buzz
11
Fizz
13
14
FizzBuzz

DECLARE attempts : ARRAY[1:3] OF STRING
DECLARE tries : INTEGER
DECLARE guess : STRING
attempts[1] ← "hunter1"
attempts[2] ← "letmein"
attempts[3] ← "open sesame"
tries ← 0
REPEAT
    tries ← tries + 1
    guess ← attempts[tries]
    OUTPUT "Try ", tries, ": ", guess
UNTIL guess = "open sesame" OR tries = 3
IF guess = "open sesame" THEN
    OUTPUT "Access granted"
ELSE
    OUTPUT "Locked out"
ENDIF

Try 1: hunter1
Try 2: letmein
Try 3: open sesame
Access granted