Saturday, August 29, 2009

Flowcharts

Graduate student Ben Shneiderman envisions the idea of structured flowcharts while attending a 1972 ACM discussion on structured programming. Working with fellow student Isaac Nassi, they put together and refine the sketches leading to the first ideas of sequence, conditionals and iteration. They draft and publish the paper "Flowchart Techniques for Structured Programming" in August 1973.
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