Sample Flowchart and Pseudo Code.  By Professor Floyd Winters 04/14/05, 11/27/06, 08/24/2011

This is a very short sample. Your First intro VB Flowchart probably should be almost twice as long.
Click here to view Creating a Flowchart in Microsoft Word (5:20 min. YouTube video).

 

Flowchart
Symbol Name

Sample short
Flowchart

Pseudo Code
(English like words)

Terminator
(Use Oval)

Description: Description: C:\SCFData\winterf\0ClassFolders\2171VB\FlowchartPseudoCode_files\image001.gif

Begin Wage Program

 

 Input
(Parallelogram)

 

Enter Employee Hours

 

 

Decision (IF)
(Diamond)

Check if Hours are Valid (Under 60 Hours)

IF No then Reenter

IF Yes then Enter Rate

 

 

Input

 

 

Enter Employee Pay Rate

(add: Check if Rate is Valid)

 

Process
(Calculation)
(Rectangle)

 

Calculate Employee Pay: Multiply Hours times Rate

 

Output – Monitor

 

Display to Monitor

(add: Printout Employee Pay)

 

 

Output – Disk

 

 

Save to Disk

 

 

Decision

 

Are there More records?

If Yes – Enter new Hours

If No – End the program

 

Terminator

 

End Wage Program

(Note: one Entrance, one Exit)