comp sci 101

It occurs to me how important it is for a technical writer who works in the software arena to have experience with pseudocode. Not insomuch as you'd actually have to write your documentation with a description of the process in a psuedocode manner, but the advantage is that when you have the basic understanding of how applications step through logic, you're better poised to explain every detail to your audience.

It's fun when you get to piece together and interleave this hard logic with a matter-of-fact tone in your writing.