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A flowchart is a type of diagram that represents an algorithm or process, showing the steps as boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting these with arrows. This diagrammatic representation can give a step-by-step solution to a given problem.

A flowchart is a type of diagram that represents an algorithm or process, showing the steps as boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting these with arrows. This diagrammatic representation can give a step-by-step solution to a given problem.

Process operations are represented in these boxes, and arrows connecting them represent flow of control. Data flows are not typically represented in a flowchart, in contrast with data flow diagrams; rather, they are implied by the sequencing of operations. Flowcharts are used in analyzing, designing, documenting or managing a process or program in various fields

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Online Flowchart Diagram Tool (run from private wiki)

Is there some flowchart diagram tool that would (or could be made to) integrate with a self-hosted wiki? Requirements: basic functionality (e.g., drawing some boxes and some arrows) would strongly prefer it to be visual (i.e., not written out in…
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What is the difference between a data flow diagram and a flow chart?

I want to know why we use Data Flow Diagrams instead of flow charts.
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Is there a way to automatically generate the data flow diagrams and flowcharts?

I am recently working on some long and obscure codes written by some other smart guys. I'm thinking of generating the Data Flow Diagrams and the Flowcharts to facilitate my work. Is there any kinds of software that can do this job…
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Best javascript library to create and interactive flow chart

I would like to create an interactive 'problem solving' type flow chart that is made up out div elements. I would like to do something very similar to what the new york times have done in this…
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Flowchart else if

I'm making a flowchart a for an algorithm, and came into some problem for an else if statement. For an if-statement such as this one if (something) {} else if (something) {} else {} How would the else if statement look like in a flowchart diagram?
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Flow chart generator from source files

I'm searching for a tool that let me generate a flow chart for a given project. It is difficult understand others code by looking at code, a flow chart can be very helpful. My Project is in VS 2010 Professional Edition.
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How could I represent a interrupt (for microcontrollers) in a flowchart?

Does anyone have any visual examples?
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Mermaid JS wrap links from far right to far left

Working with Mermaid js to make flowcharts and can't seem to find a way to wrap links around to a new "line" so to speak. Docs and Googling haven't gotten me anywhere. Does anyone know if it is possible to create a link to replace the red line?
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Flowcharting functional programming languages

Flowcharting. This ancient old practice that's been in use for over 1000 years now, being forced upon us poor students, without any usefulness (or so do I think). It might work well with imperative, sequentially running languages, but what about my…
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Visualizing R code with a flow chart

Are there any tools that can visualize R code? I have some very complex R code split between several scripts that I need to understand. Part of the difficulty of this is that there are so many nested functions and variables that it's proving…
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What is the difference between a workflow and a flowchart if any?

I'm doing a study on how to visualize a process of an application. Now I found the term workflow and workflow management but it's a little confusing. When I searched further the term flowchart also showed up. My question is now, is there any…
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tool to show diagramatic representation of c code

Is there any tool to show diagrammatic rep of flow of program if we input a C file? Thanks.
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Open source HTML5 JS library for flowchats

I am planning to write an application that can allow me to draw flowchart like diagrams that can span over multiple dynamic rectangles (nodes) connected to N level of depth. Obvious thought is to use a flowchat library to achieve the purpose. I…
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How to align text in Mermaid flowchart node?

I would like to align text in a Mermaid flowchart node so the Thinkpad and iPad will line up. I tried to insert a \t before them but they just got rendered as text. flowchart TD A[Christmas] -->|Get money| B(Go shopping) B --> C{Let me…
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Mermaid change position of nodes / options Anyway to fix nodes' position

I'm trying to draw a flow chart in html. The flow must be configured as below. I've tried it in Mermaid like this
graph LR …
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