Is a program design aid that serves the function of a flowchart in expressing the detailed logic of a program.

A flowchart is a diagrammatic representation for the program. Any lay-man can understand flowchart easily.

It is not necessary that only programmers should use flowchart.

Flow chart can be used for any kind of problem to be solved diagrammatically. It consists of certain shapes which represents an action.

A Oval symbol represents “Start and Stop”

A diamond symbol represents “Decision making”

A Parallelogram represents “Input and Output”

A rectangle represents “Processing”

An Arrow represent “Flow”. "

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