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Title: Essentials of Flowcharting by Michel H. Boillot, Gary M. Gleason, Lister Wayne Horn ISBN: 0697254186 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $52.55 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 3
Summary: Without much choice, there is nothing else to choose
Comment: Despite the growing mountain of programming code powering personal, mid-range and mainframe computers - not to mention the spreading virus of World Wide Web pages - there are few lessons available on how to flowchart that mountain.
Boilet is a professor at a junior college in the Florida panhandle. He wrote a dozen computer books on software and programming languages inthe last two decades. This slim blue book is 154 pages long and combines programming along with flowcharting in the first three chapters. Only in chapter four, Structured Programming, does the reader get a plate full of charting. Here Boilot digs into the meat of flowcharting, covering flowchart modules like Sequence, Decision, Loop and Selection.
Oddly enough, chapter five starts out withFile Processing, covering much of the basics required before chapter four. He introduces basic definitions and major chart shapes. Chapter 6 deals with arrays and gives flowcharting examples while the appendix gives programming examples and flowcharting exercises. A quick perusal gives brief answers, but little more than that.
Written in 1995, the book does not even mention AS/400s, RPG, C++, JAVA or the Internet. No where does it deal with charting Web page functions, HTML routines or database relationships. Nor does the book deal with flowchart software in any fashion.
Although the best selling charting software on the market today (what is number two?) the Visio manuals do not deal with mid-range or application programming except in a peripheral fashion. It is something that you can glean from the rear view mirror, but it is not what Visio is driving at.
While Visio 200 for Dummies (Debbie Walkowski, 2000, IDG Books Worldwide) is a much better book for learning Visio than the ones that come with the software, this book does not deal directly with system or database flowcharting either. Yet, if you are using Visio for flowcharting, you will find information that is more useful in the "for Dummies" book, than you find in the Essentials of Flowcharting.
In the Visio program folder are a number of flowchart samples (C:\Program Files\Visio\Samples\Flowchart). These help display a variety of charts without telling what they mean or precisely how they were created. Yet, the samples do not cover the same type of system flowcharting that the Essentials book covers. A few basic chart samples of system or database programming in the Visio program, or manuals, and you would not have to peruse the Essentials book at all.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sound logic
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: very good
Comment: its a very good book , advise to read it
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Title: Flowcharts: Plain & Simple: Learning & Application Guide by Joiner Associates Staff ISBN: 1884731031 Publisher: Oriel Inc Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Mapping Work Processes by Dianne Galloway ISBN: 0873892666 Publisher: American Society for Quality Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Flowcharting by Schriber ISBN: 0898740231 Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company Pub. Date: 1980 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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