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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Flow Charting Software
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.003612.7466@ra.msstate.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan9.165816.22693@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <alien.02gx@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:36:12 GMT
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- In article <alien.02gx@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan9.165816.22693@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> cadpoole@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Dale Poole) writes:
- >>Hello Y'all.
- >>
- >>I'm a newbie programmer, currently in the throes of flow charting. Designing
- >>the charts is no big deal, but putting them into a form that is neat and
- >>easy to read for my instructors is a different matter.
- >
- >I'd advise you to find some new instructors, if possible. Flowcharts are an
- >obsolete system for coding in obsolete languages; you'll learn several very
- >bad habits, no good ones, and if you try to design a program in a modern
- >language like C or Pascal using flowcharts it'll be a disaster. (And I speak
- >from experience here.) Assuming you can't change instructors, find a book
- >(better, several books) on structured programming and study them carefully.
-
- It depends on the University. Here the first class in Pascal the students
- are taught pseudo-coding, no flowcharting. At the Community College, they
- flowchart in one beginning programming class and then drop it. I usually
- get to tell new students that we don't flowchart over here at Uni. Dale may
- not have a choice...
-
- --
- Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM
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