Hass

Dear Members


Can anyone help me with some pseudocode please? It is for a programme called hangman and eventually will be programed in Java!

The hangman program has to hold words between 6-10 letters and the hangman pieces are made up of 9 parts!

Here is my pseudocode so far.


Player one Gets word.

Set word 6 >= 10 letters.
Set Hangman_piece = 9
Set word_marker to length of word
Set guess_count = 0
While (guess_count <= 9) Do

Prompt player two with word.

Player two guesses letter in word.

If letter in word = True Then

Output letter in word marker.

Increment correct guess count +1

Elseif

letter in word = False

Output screen message letter not in word.

Increment incorrect guess count +1

Assemble hangman piece.

EndIf
Enddo

If (guess count > 9) Then

Display game over!

Display all pieces of hangman

Endif

End

Polyphemus_

Please be more clear: what do you want to add?

DaWei

Prolly evaluate to false. Pseudocode is a good start, read your own as an expression of human thought processes being mapped to the procedural nature of the solution. Actually READ your own and mentally try out the steps. The key is in making decisions and altering the future (or repeating the past).

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Lich

So true. The whole point of pseudocode is to play computer and test your algorithms for logic errors before you actually start writing code.

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Hass

I want the Pseudocode to show, when player 2 guesses a letter in the word, to show them if the letter is in that word. If it isnt then I want it to show that if the letter is incorrectly guessed, then part of the hangman will be displayed. I want some kind of loop so that player 2 can guess the letters in the word. The hangman pieces are made up of 9 bits so therefore, player 2 has only got 9 guesses to guess the word.

I am very new to pseudocode and not sure whether what ive done is correct.

:o

DaWei

Pseudocode is not a syntactically constrained thing. Pseudocode is an expression of your thoughts. Here is an example:
Here's another (your words):
Don't you see the logic you've already proposed there?
IF the guess is correct
THEN do this
ELSE do that.

Alternatively,
IF the guess is incorrect
THEN do this
ELSE do that.

Now, you go ahead and fill in the "do this" and the "do that", which you've described.
and
You're letting this thing bumfoozle you when you've nearly got it whipped.

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Hass

Thanks for help and comments, I will now have another look at it.