Essentials of Flowcharting

by Michel H. Boillot, Gary M. Gleason, Lister W. Horn, et al.

Book Overview

Offering an explanation of flowcharting techniques as related to structured computer programming, this edition includes new coverage of pseudocode and features four appendixes illustrating flowcharting for COBOL, Fortran, BASIC and Pascal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0697254186
• ISBN13: 9780697254184
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

The basic principles are explained

I beg to differ with the other reviewer that blasted this book. But keep in mind this is my personal opinion just as the other reviewers was their opinion. I found the book to be enlighting where other books assumed you knew the basic unlying heart of the subject. Logic, simple algebra and algorithms. Its what I needed, I am a beginner.Although this is a used book and its a second edition which has references to punch cards which is a thing from computings' past. I got a lot of info to help me grasp the beginning building blocks to programming logic. Which my class text book " Logic and Structured Design for Computer Programers " by Harlod J. Rood for programming logic CIS 168 does not.This class is supposed to intoduce us to the logic not confuse us, and I find this "Essentials Of Flowcharting" By Boillot, Gleason, and Horn approach to be helpful. It explains things that are assumed you know.While you will not get any progamming specific info out of this book it will give some of the basics that other books leave out. Like the diffence between a variable and an expression. How a value must be assigned to variable like X before a replacement statement can be can be processed. Thus X=X+2 (to solve you must first be told that X=10) Then X=10+2 can be processed. The value of X after processing is 12 since X+2=10+2=12.And there are lots of simple flow charts to practice tracing or solving.Accumlation, sums, loops and answers to the flowcharting exercises. Oh a brief bit of BASIC statements.If your not getting it this book may help you. Or not, its always subjective, it helped me, it may not you. I find I often need a couple books to pick out the parts that increase my understanding of the concepts.And there are lots of simple flow charts to practice tracing or solving.

Sound logic

Someone wiser than us has decided that one should learn how to calculate manually before giving them a calculator. Supposedly this way they have an idea of what goes on in that little black box. Personally I am not interested n how it gets there. Following this logic, one should know the "Essentials of Flowcharting" before buying ABC Flowchart or its equivalent. Measure twice and cut once. This has lots of practical examples, unlike those toy charts you make at school. Understanding Fortran

very good

its a very good book , advise to read it