Writing code before fully understanding its underlying algorithm can lead to bugs, so what’s a better alternative? Two options are flowcharts and pseudocode. A flowchart is a visual representati ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Pseudocode close pseudocode Also written as pseudo-code. A method of writing up a set of instructions for a computer ...

The following pseudocode describes an algorithm for concatenating one singly linked list to another: DECLARE Node top1 = NULL DECLARE Node top2 = NULL // Assume code that creates top1-referenced ...

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users’ timelines.

Any random developer on GitHub is now able to suggest edits to the code should they feel like it. “If bugs are discovered or improvements to the algorithms are suggested and accepted ...