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Re: RIS 2.0 Problems
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Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:20:49 GMT
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YES !
Flowcharts !
It's the little routines full of variables passed in and passed out that
need the most careful mapping on a large flat surface.
Once you have it working you throw it away.
Nobody wants to see it.
It tends to be a personal thing.
To appreciate it, you need to start over.
C. Fred Mullins
(937)767-7241 ext 243
FAX (937)-767-2354
fmullins@ysi.com
"Brass Tilde"
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htbb.com> Johnson" <aklego@mac.com>, <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
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03/07/2005 09:08 Subject: Re: RIS 2.0 Problems
AM
> > Whether you typing
> > words, writing ones and zeros or "drawing" a program, the concepts are • the same.
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> No. Structured programs, data structures, all of those things are the
> cornerstones of modern programming. People just don't use flow charts or
> machine code anymore - and that's what RIS and Robocode are teaching.
I'm going to disagree with this one statement, and this one statement only.
I've been working in the business world creating software for almost 20
years, and I use flowcharts, and their conceptual children, all the time.
While flowcharting a complete program is rare even for me any more, they
are
still quite useful for understanding the way a process works, and that's
the
key to designing an automated system to accomplish that same process.
Even so-called object oriented languages are procedural based at their
core,
and flowcharting, along with other process mapping techniques, are still
quite helpful.
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| (...) Bunk! Bunk, I say, Bunk! Even with all of the 'modern datatypes' and Object oriented coding.. it all still boils down to LOGIC. Of which Flowcharts are the simplest and most effective building block. Take any of your modern 'objects' and break (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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