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Flowcharting Guidelines Explained

1) A flowchart begins with a START symbol and ends with an END symbol, with arrows indicating the direction of flow from top to bottom and left to right. 2) Shapes like rectangles, circles, and diamonds can have multiple arrows entering but only one arrow exiting, except diamonds which must have one arrow entering and two exiting. 3) Flowcharts are used to logically show step-by-step processes and can contain multiple solutions to the same problem. They should be as simple as possible while solving the problem.

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Flowcharting Guidelines Explained

1) A flowchart begins with a START symbol and ends with an END symbol, with arrows indicating the direction of flow from top to bottom and left to right. 2) Shapes like rectangles, circles, and diamonds can have multiple arrows entering but only one arrow exiting, except diamonds which must have one arrow entering and two exiting. 3) Flowcharts are used to logically show step-by-step processes and can contain multiple solutions to the same problem. They should be as simple as possible while solving the problem.

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GUIDELINES IN FLOWCHARTING

a. A flowchart always begins with a START and is completed by END.


b. Symbols are interconnected by headed arrows.
c. An arrowhead indicates the direction to be followed. The normal direction of flow in a flowchart is from top
to bottom and from left to right.

d. An oblong, hexagon, parallelogram, rectangle or circle may have only one arrow branching out, but may
have one or more arrows branching in.

e. A diamond must have only one arrow branching in and two arrows branching out.

False

True

f. Whenever circles are used, the symbol leading to a circle should flow to the symbol where a circle
containing a similar character/label leads to.
g. The sequence of symbols matters. It indicates a step-by-step logic to be followed.
h. A flowchart may contain as many symbols of the same kind as necessary in the solution of the problem.
i. There may be varied flowcharts to solve one problem. There is no just one correct flowchart.
j. A flowchart is efficient if it is simple and contains the least possible number of symbols to solve a problem.
k. In the process symbol, the equation should always be written in a way that the left side of the equation
contains the variable while the right side contains the expression.
Example: x = y + b

OPERATORS

Arithmetic Relational Logical


Symbol Meaning Symbol Meaning Symbol Meaning
+ Addition == is equal to && and
– Subtraction <> is not equal to || or
* Multiplication > is greater than ~ not
/ Real Division < is less than
\ Integer Division <= is less than or equal to
% Modulo >=

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