Pseudocode for Bubble Sort:
 
PROCESS
 Initialize FLIP-CT at something other than 0 so SORTPASS 
 will be entered
 Initialize ENDPT to the last element in the array
 DO SORTPASS UNTIL ENDPT < 2 OR FLIPCT = 0
 Show results of sort
 …
END PROCESS
SORTPASS
 SUB1 = 1
 SUB2 = 2
 FLIPCT = 0
 DO SORTLOOP UNTIL SUB2 > ENDPT
 SUBTRACT 1 FROM ENDPT
END SORTPASS
SORTLOOP 
 IF ELEM(SUB1) > ELEM(sub2)
 HOLDSLOT = ELEM(SUB1)
 ELEM(SUB1) = ELEM(SUB2)
 ELEM(SUB2) = HOLDSLOT
 FLIPCT = FLIPCT + 1
 ENDIF
 SUB1 = SUB1 + 1
 SUB2 = SUB2 + 1 
END SORTLOOP 
 
Bubble Sort written in COBOL: 
 
 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
 PROGRAM-ID. BUBBLE.
 AUTHOR. GROCER.
 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
 DATA DIVISION.
 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
 01 TABLE-IN PIC 9(5) VALUE 56234.
 01 RDF-TABLE-IN REDEFINES TABLE-IN.
 05 TAB-SLOT PIC 9 OCCURS 5 TIMES.
 01 SUB1 PIC 9 VALUE 0.
 01 SUB2 PIC 9 VALUE 0.
 01 END-PT PIC 9 VALUE 5.
 01 FLIP-CT PIC 9 VALUE 9.
 01 HOLD-SLOT PIC 9 VALUE 0.
 01 RESPOND PIC X VALUE SPACES.
 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
 MAINLINE.
 PERFORM B-100-PROCESS.
 STOP RUN.
 B-100-PROCESS.
 PERFORM B-200-SORT
 UNTIL END-PT = 1 OR FLIP-CT = 0.
 DISPLAY TABLE-IN.
 ACCEPT RESPOND.
 B-200-SORT.
 MOVE 1 TO SUB1.
 MOVE 2 TO SUB2.
 MOVE 0 TO FLIP-CT
 PERFORM B-300-PASS
 UNTIL SUB2 > END-PT.
 SUBTRACT 1 FROM END-PT.
 B-300-PASS.
 IF TAB-SLOT (SUB1) > TAB-SLOT (SUB2)
 MOVE TAB-SLOT (SUB1) TO HOLD-SLOT
 MOVE TAB-SLOT (SUB2) TO TAB-SLOT (SUB1)
  MOVE HOLD-SLOT TO TAB-SLOT (SUB2)
 ADD 1 TO FLIP-CT.
 ADD 1 TO SUB1.
 ADD 1 TO SUB2.

Bubble Sort in COBOL with embedded pass in code:

 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
 PROGRAM-ID. BUBBLE.
 AUTHOR. GROCER.
 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
 DATA DIVISION.
 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
 01 TABLE-IN PIC 9(5) VALUE 56234.
 01 RDF-TABLE-IN REDEFINES TABLE-IN.
 05 TAB-SLOT PIC 9 OCCURS 5 TIMES.
 01 SUB1 PIC 9 VALUE 0.
 01 SUB2 PIC 9 VALUE 0.
 01 END-PT PIC 9 VALUE 5.
 01 FLIP-CT PIC 9 VALUE 9.
 01 HOLD-SLOT PIC 9 VALUE 0.
 01 RESPOND PIC X VALUE SPACES.
 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
 MAINLINE.
 PERFORM B-100-PROCESS.
 STOP RUN.
 B-100-PROCESS.
 PERFORM UNTIL END-PT = 1 OR FLIP-CT = 0
 MOVE 1 TO SUB1
 MOVE 2 TO SUB2
 MOVE 0 TO FLIP-CT
 PERFORM UNTIL SUB2 > END-PT
  IF TAB-SLOT (SUB1) > TAB-SLOT (SUB2)
 MOVE TAB-SLOT (SUB1) TO HOLD-SLOT
 MOVE TAB-SLOT (SUB2) TO TAB-SLOT (SUB1)
 MOVE HOLD-SLOT TO TAB-SLOT (SUB2)
 ADD 1 TO FLIP-CT
 END-IF
 ADD 1 TO SUB1
 ADD 1 TO SUB2
 END-PERFORM
 SUBTRACT 1 FROM END-PT
 END-PERFORM
 DISPLAY TABLE-IN.
 ACCEPT RESPOND.

Bubble Sort written in Visual Basic:

Option Explicit

Private Sub cmdClear_Click()

Dim ct As Integer

For ct = 0 To 4

txtNum(ct) = ""

Next ct

txtNum(0).SetFocus

End Sub

Private Sub cmdExit_Click()

End

End Sub

Private Sub cmdSort_Click()

Dim endPt As Integer, flipCt As Integer

Dim sub1 As Integer, sub2 As Integer

Dim holdSlot As String

endPt = 4

flipCt = 9

Do Until endPt = 0 Or flipCt = 0

sub1 = 0

sub2 = 1

flipCt = 0

Do Until sub2 > endPt

If Val(txtNum(sub1)) > Val(txtNum(sub2)) Then

holdSlot = txtNum(sub1)

txtNum(sub1) = txtNum(sub2)

txtNum(sub2) = holdSlot

flipCt = flipCt + 1

End If

sub1 = sub1 + 1

sub2 = sub2 + 1

Loop

endPt = endPt - 1

Loop

End Sub

Note that the textboxes on the form are set up as an array. The first one is txtNum(0) and the next one will be textNum(1) followed by textNum(2), txtNum(3) and txtNum(4). In doing the sort, I can use these names.