SCSA Pseudocode

This extension provides syntax highlighting and snippets for SCSA Pseudocode (Western Australian ATAR Computer Science's flavour of Pseudocode) in Visual Studio Code. An interpreter is also intended to be used with this extension, to execute and debug your pseudocode.

Features

• Syntax Highlighting: Syntax highlighting according to the SCSA Pseudocode specification (valid as of 2024).
• Snippets: Snippets for the control structures (IF, WHILE, FOR, FUNCTION, CLASS, CASE, REPEAT).

Examples

Selection sort

Part of a binary search tree

Note

SCSA pseudocode has very poor standardisation, so many compromises had to be made. E.g. OTHER and OTHERWISE are both valid CASE 'default' branches.

Pseudocode Interpreter

This extension is designed to be used alongside the comprehensive SCSA Pseudocode Interpreter.

For the full toolchain, including the C++ interpreter, documentation, and examples, please visit the main repository: SaintNong/pseudocode

The interpreter should provide correct lexing, parsing, and interpreting of pseudocode verified by many integration tests.

Current known issues

• The class identifier at the end of each class declaration is currently the same colour as a function rather than class
• Declaring classes which inherit from other classes messes with syntax highlighting for the class and superclass identifier.

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