When in school it was often a requirement to flowchart the little programs that we wrote line for line.
Those flow charts tended, due to the size of the pictures, to be very large and were often tedious to draw.
It was always to such detail that you were essentially writing code anyway.
I use flowchart/UML style techniques to develop higher level things but when it gets down to actual loops and what not it seems like overkill.
I will often pseudo-code more detailed algorithms but still not to the super fine grained point.
Is this just one of those things where in school things were so tiny there would be nothing else to ‘Flow-Chart’ so they had use do the minutia?
Flow charts for the ifs and whiles of real code, never (in 30 years) found useful.
As a discussion aid for elicitng requirements … so when we’re here, what could happen? … how would you decide … what would you do if it’s > 95% … Can be helpful. A certain kin d of user finds such diagrams on the whiteboard easy to talk about.