Curious to know what opinions are regarding writing pseudo code for a large Visual Studio project.

Back in 1983 when I had my first computer programming class, it was taught in Pascal on the old TRS-80 Model 4 console, and my teacher drilled us thorougly on writing out pseudo code before writing any actual code. Over the years, I found that I write little pseudo code, but for large projects I still sketch out some basic stuff in Notepad before starting any coding.

Now, with VS2005 and all its revision-friendly features (i.e intellisense, global variable renaming, etc), its easy to be lazier and just jump right in. Not the best practice. Anyway...

1) Do computer courses nowadays emphasize pseudo code at all?
2) Do YOU write any pseudo code before/during a modern project? If so, what tools do you use (Notepad etc?)
3) Have you never used pseudo code?