Students often get hung up on slight syntax differences, as if knowing how to program is the same as knowing a language’s syntax. It isn’t. Look at these examples and check you understand that they do the same thing. It is the logic of your programs that is important, not the brackets and semi-colons.

IB Computer Science pseudocode

loop J from 0 to 99
  output J
end loop

Python

for j in range(0,100):
  print(j)

Java

for (int j = 1; j < 100; j++) {
  System.out.println(j);
}