What is the role of pseudocode in software development?

• A. It provides a precise, language-agnostic description of steps to implement a solution before coding
• B. It is the final executable program
• C. It is used to describe steps in a way that is easier to convert to code than natural language
• D. It is used to manage memory in a runtime

Answer: (C)

Pseudocode is a clear, language-agnostic outline of a program’s steps that you create to plan what the code will do before writing it. Because it uses simple, structured statements (like if, while, and for) to describe the logic, it’s easier to translate into a real programming language than natural language. It’s not meant to be executed as a program, and it doesn’t handle memory management at runtime—that’s the job of the actual code and the language/runtime. So the best description is that pseudocode describes steps in a way that makes them straightforward to convert into code.