Pseudocode (and Other) Poetry – an Experiment I abandoned

In the winter of ’22, I was learning Python (trying for the N-th time), and I thought โ€“ what if we wrote poems like we write code?

That’s how Pseudocode (side)project was born.

As usual, I had an (overly) ambitious goal of writing a book of poems in pseudocode.

(fun fact: I have a “poetic history” from high school days, when I thought I’d study general literature, I wrote many awarded poems, and published a book of poems)

I ended up with 2 poems.

Why “(and Other) Poetry”?

Besides pseudocode as poetry, I started thinking about different things that could be reshaped and given a poetic twist:

  • UML diagram
  • Shopping list
  • Newspaper article or an article title
  • Recipes

I didn’t write any ๐Ÿ™‚

Ok, But Can We See a Pseudocode Poem?

For sure. One of the 2 poems I really liked is called “waiting loop”

What Now?

The (side)project is abandoned.
Maybe I get to it in the future…
If it seems interesting, I encourage you to write a pseudocode poem yourself! ๐Ÿ™‚
If you do, please share here.

Some Notes…

I later learned (pseudo)code poetry was a thing ๐Ÿ™‚ alas, not “my” invention…

You can read more here:

My Other (Side)projects

If you’re curious about what I’m up to, I track my (side)projects here.


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