Talk:Flowchart/2007

Random musings

There should be a "yes" by the arrow if the lamp is plugged in.

This article needs some sort of definition of what basic shapes are used for. zaius 13:39, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Also would be useful to explore the interface between the wiki approach to knowledge management and the more graphical flowchart based approach- We would love to implement a wiki within our organisation but the lack of flowchart support is holding us back.

(13:17, 26 August 2005 163.160.252.16)

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There is an extension to add flowchart support for wikis, please see here.

Tels 12:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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For the basic shapes, maybe it should base on the iso standard? ISO 5807 --200.121.85.47 15:38, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

---> YES!, This is what I was looking for, thanks. Please include in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.94.73.50 (talk) 00:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Manual

The manual section needs attention - not sure what's happening with the brackets.--Shtove 13:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Examples

The text states "Since computer programming languages do not contain all of the constructs that can be created by the drawing of flowcharts, they do not often help new programmers learn the concepts of logical flow and program structure." I realise that the concept of a manual operation is not representable, or at least not really implementable by a Programming Language being run on a Computer. If this were a lecture I would, at this point ask the students WHAT concepts are not representable. A Wikizen would want an explaination as to which concepts these are. I do not use flowchars, so I would rather let someone else who does clarify that point.

I do use Declerative languages where concepts exist which Cannot be represented by a flowchart despite being executable on a computer. I would be able to contribute something concering contrasting matters - I can direct the reader to the right pages here. I would prefer the "Flowchart Guru" to speak first to have foundation to work on. I could not otherwise be fair.

Ajsmiller 21:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I think the sentence beginning "This flowchart would be difficult to program directly into a computer programming language since" and the sentence after it should probably be removed. Substituting read_int() and print_int() for context-specific IO functions (scanf, printf in a command line program, for example) in C/C++ this would just be:

int N, M, F;
N = read_int();
M = F = 1;
do{
   F = F * M;
}while(M++ != N); //syntax means M != N evaluated first, M incremented second
print_int(F);

It would be equally easy in many other languages (Java, Perl, PHP, etc). If someone else knows a specific language or family of languages where it would be difficult then perhaps it could be reworded to say "This flowchart would be difficult to program directly into computer programming languages like <list_of_languages>" or similar.

--Eye of slink 00:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Perl script used

I'm not really into Perl, but to me the perl script is not the one used to create the flowchart featured.

Dcosta 03:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarized

The descriptions of the symbols seem to have be copied more-or-less verbatim from http://www.edrawsoft.com/flowchart-symbols.php I don't have time to fix it now, but wanted at least to post this so I (or someone else) can fix it later. -Bindingtheory 14:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)