Flowcharts Symbols

it's not a magic

How to use them in programming and in our lives

Agata Malec-Sromek

I'm developer & mentor

My twitter: agatajs

What are flowcharts ?

Flowcharts are used to:

  • plan
  • analize
  • design
  • manage

Frank & Lilian Gilberth

John van Neumann

History

Flowcharts

symbols

Terminal

Beginnng and ending

Process

Set of operations

Decision

Conditional operation

Input/Output

 process of inputting and outputting data

Flow arrow

order of operation

Flowcharts 

for programming

Help us to :

 

- organize big     picture thinking

 

- understand how user navigate

 

- show the structure

 

more..

Flowcharts for other fields

We can:

  • analyze and understand processes
  • identify unnecessary steps
  • develop characters
  • plan and structure lyrics or poetry
  • create a lesson plan
  • illustrate and design processes

How to plan and draw a basic flowchart?

Exercises

Puzzle

  • help to prepare a "Bloody Mary"
  • help to learn "Hey, Jude" lyrics
  • help to begin friendship

Create a flowchart that:

  • doubles any number
  • sums up any two numbers
  • checks if the number is greater than 10
  • increases the number by 1 until it reaches the value of 10
  • checks which any two numbers are larger
  • sorts numbers e.g [2,0,8,1,-2]

     
  • Try to imagine and draw how the product purchase looks like.

Photos:

  • Frank And Lilian Gilbeth -
    https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/what-is-a-flowchart-tutorial
  • John von Neumann -https://qualiacomputing.com/2018/06/21/john-von-neumann/
  • start photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/UglVBZGpaFg
  • programming photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/cvBBO4PzWPg
  • books photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/XiLRQTsdlGc
  • pencils photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/l3N9Q27zULw
  • exercies photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/TsVN31Dzyv4

Flowcharts Symbols

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