Flowcharts And Their Purpose
Flowcharts, which have been in use for many years have become more and more specialized as the area using the became better defined. A form of charting we all recognizing is the diagram of electrical circuits. We do not understand these charts, but to the persons schooled and working in electronics, they are highly meaningful. In the same way, the data processing industry has developed its own its set of special symbols for use in picturing the activities in the processing of data. The first formal flowchart is attributed to John Von Neumann in 1945. A flowchart is simply a method of assisting the programmer to layout in visual, two-dimensional format, the ideas as to how to organize the sequence of steps or events necessary to solve a problem with a computer. In other word, flowcharts are symbolic diagrams of the operation sequence, data flow, control flow and processing logic in information p...