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How to draw flow chart for recursive call with return value

I would like to draw a flow chart for a recursive call function whose return value is used, the real function is much more complex, but very similar on the basic idea as following: List getDigit(...
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Parallel process flowchart shape in Draw.io

Our drawing tool is draw.io. Occassionally I've got to draw flow charts with it. In those flow charts I've got to express parallel processes (very similar to this UML example). Wikipedia says about ...
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Flowchart symbol or pattern for Publisher/Subscriber or Listen/Notify

We have a system consisting of Detectors Converters/Transformers Business Rules Engines and State Managers Views/Displays/Applications There are several potential ways these may interact and share ...
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How to represent in a flowchart data fetched from a database

I have an existing piece of code that uses a database. In order to understand its algorithm, I try to represent it with a flow chart. In this algorithm I need to fetch some data from the database in ...
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concatenate string arrays - algorithm flowchart interpretation

I would like help interpreting this flowchart. I don't know what k means even though they say what it represents in the question. I can quickly see that since dimension m corresponds to variable X ...
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In a flow chart, is there a convention on directionality of true/false conditions from a decision?

When writing a flow chart, I can understand that it is a best practice to generally read left-to-right or right-to-left per locale, and/or top-to-bottom and generally for the directional flow of the ...
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Are there any standards for flowchart data structures?

I'm often tasked with relatively complex flows that my employers will want to experiment with in regards to the amount of steps and their order. I'm a contractor and when my work is handed over to ...
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Flowcharting 2 methods that use the same variable

so I need to flowchart something similar to the picture. The the first flowchart on left and the 2 flowcharts on the right is on different classes. The someClass have a instance variable named MyVar ...
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Communicating the intended operation of API business logic to both developers and business people

Currently, I'm designing the intended operation of a (RESTful) API which a team of developers will eventually build. I'm not concerned with implementation details, as long as inputs are correctly ...
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Making control flow explicit through printing instead of using comments?

I would have the opinion and good practices in script programming about using print statements to materialize the control flow (I usually use an anchor mark, then the name of the function just entered,...
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Does a data flow diagram seem correct when one external entity is connected with too many arrows?

I am trying to model a data flow diagram in accordance with a requirement document. The document calls for a system with many roles that users can play, where it needs constant information exchange ...
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Would an IDE with a flowchart view be practical? [closed]

If the question title was a little too vague or confusing, I'm talking about something reminiscent of the Mindstorms NXT/EV3 IDEs. But the code editor, instead of having prefabbed generic blocks to ...
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Representing a user event in a flow chart

I was wondering which symbol should be used for representing a user event (i.e. button click). seems like it should suffice, but isn't a user click technically ?
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Flowcharting a Get-ter

I'm not quite sure of the proper flowchart notation for returning an object/value from a function (I'm also looking for some quick tips on proper flowcharting notation in general, if anyone notices ...
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Flowchart: get values from functions. Rectangle or Paralellogram

I need to create a flowchart for one of my algorithms and one step is calling a function (that I don't wish to explain in the flowchart) and assigning the returned value to a variable. float x = ...
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