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Nov 23rd, 2008
Am I doing any better with this and can you critique it for me please?
This is all new to me...My instructor is not teaching us properly and plenty of other students are having the same problems trying to understand what is the assignment is.




Originally Posted by Narue View Post
>I just need an example to follow because I am not sure where to start.
You've baffled me. I can't imagine how you could not know where to start. Have you never seen a flowchart before? That's about the only way you could reach the stage of complete incompetence without actually being incompetent.

Why not start by printing a report of all the records? That's a straightforward loop, and strikes me as a fantastic bare minimum for your flowchart. Here's some pseudocode:
while more records do
  load next record
  print record
loop
From there you can build up to the requirements. This is called incremental design, and it's most effective when you're prototyping (ie. you don't really know how the end result will look and just want to throw ideas around). The intermediate stages don't have to solve the problem, they can solve a part of the problem, or even a part of a part of the problem.
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