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 ๐
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! ๐
If you do, please share here.
Some Notes…
I later learned (pseudo)code poetry was a thing ๐ alas, not “my” invention…
You can read more here:
- Wikipedia – Code Poetry
- code-poetry.com (project by Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr)
- https://www.sourcecodepoetry.com/
My Other (Side)projects
If you’re curious about what I’m up to, I track my (side)projects here.