Flowchart

  • Authors:
  • Ned Chapin

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A flowchart is a graphic means of documenting a sequence of operations. Flowcharts serve as a pictorial means of communicating from one person to another the time-ordering of events or actions. As a pictorial format, flowcharts have been the subject of both an International and an American National Standard (ANSI, 1970; Chapin, 1979). Flowcharts go by many other names, including block diagram, flow diagram, system chart, run diagram, process chart, logic chart, and iteration diagram.