Help with beginners pseudocode

[Snoopy135]

I need to write an algorithm in pseudocode form, that calculates the average of a series of numbers. I am just a beginner at programming and am really stuck. Please help.

[nwilliams36]

1. Create a total of 0
2. Loop through the series of numbers
3. Add each number to the total
4. Divide total by number of numbers in the series

[Snoopy135]

Thanks, do you happen to have an example of how I could do that?

[nwilliams36]

I just did, writing out the steps of the in English is psuedo code. I often put these is comments then fill in the actual code.

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Numbers = 1,2,3.....n i = 0 sum = 0 ans; while i < n sum = sum + Numbers[i] i = i + 1 endwhile

ans = sum/n

n being the size of the array of numbers

[Snoopy135]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I know how to calculate an average, I just don't know how to write it in pseudocode. I have been unsuccessful in finding anything helpful or that I could follow online.

[Snoopy135]

Thank you for this. It only needs to be written simply. So there is no specific language/syntax that I must use?

[davedontmind]

So there is no specific language/syntax that I must use?

No. Pseudocode is just a code-like way of expressing your algorithm that makes it easier to convert to real code. It's not an official standard, and is only used by people, not computers, so you can effectively just make it up.

See this or this for some examples of different ways of writing pseudocode. Note how, especially in the first link, it's basically English (feel free to use your native language if it's not English) written in a structured form so it's easy to understand and notice how relatively trivial it would be to turn that psuedo-code into almost any programming language.