A flow chart, or flow diagram, is a graphical representation of a process or system that details the sequencing of steps required to create output. A typical flow chart uses a set of basic symbols ...

A rectangle-shaped process box in a flowchart indicates data manipulations and calculations that do not involve decisions. Processes execute in clearly-defined steps, and within a process box, the ...

To assist in these endeavors, they used special diagrams called flow charts. By the mid-1950s, such efforts had generated a new drawing instrument, the flowcharting template, a plastic rectangle with ...