Does anyone actually use flowcharts for nuts and bolts code anymore? [closed]

Question

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?

Answer 1

Flowcharts, no -- Sequence diagrams, yes. I try to keep them at a very high-level to communicate the idea to someone quickly. I do not try to get every detail in. I might supplement with another diagram to show an edge case, if it seems important.

It's great for communication as a sketch -- I think it's not right for a specification (but would be a good intro to a detailed section)