Programming Design

PSEUDOCODE

Use the AQA Pseudocode guide to ensure that you are familiar with the syntax and visual representation of the standard pseudocode you’ll expect to see in the exam questions.

Quiz:

Here is a line from a program: chesspiece=’Knight’. What will chesspiece.length return?
a. 6
b. 10
c. Knight
d. chesspiece.Knight

A program which controls a drinks dispenser has a variable called buttonPressed which records whether the dispense button has been pressed. What is the most appropriate data type or buttonPressed?
a. Integer
b. String
c. Boolean
d. Real
(float)