It is a blend of English, control structures, assignments, and arithmetic statements. To begin software design with an intelligible skeleton.
Extraneous detail is omitted in the interest of conveying the basic idea and appearance.
Since pseudo-code is not a formal programing language, the are no standards, but there are some traditions and conventions. Below we provide some general rules adopted in many text books about how an algorithm can be described via pseudo programming language. We can not and do not formally define this code, but simply explain it with reference well-known programming languages such as C or Java . You will notice that some of the pseudo-code in the handouts omits the do after while , or omits to boldface return . Some textbooks simply write everything in text font, so the issue never arises.