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Clearly Visual Basic: Programming With Visual Basic 2008: First You Need To Plan The Party

This chapter discusses the first steps in solving programming problems: analyzing the problem to identify the input and output, planning the algorithm using pseudocode and flowcharts, and desk-checking the algorithm. Programmers use tools like pseudocode and flowcharts to design algorithms that take input, process it, and provide the desired output. The key steps are to analyze what information is needed and results expected, design the processing instructions, and review the algorithm design before implementation.

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Clearly Visual Basic: Programming With Visual Basic 2008: First You Need To Plan The Party

This chapter discusses the first steps in solving programming problems: analyzing the problem to identify the input and output, planning the algorithm using pseudocode and flowcharts, and desk-checking the algorithm. Programmers use tools like pseudocode and flowcharts to design algorithms that take input, process it, and provide the desired output. The key steps are to analyze what information is needed and results expected, design the processing instructions, and review the algorithm design before implementation.

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Clearly Visual Basic: Programming

with Visual Basic 2008

Chapter 3
First You Need to Plan the Party
Objectives
• Identify the output and input in a problem description
• Plan an algorithm using pseudocode and flowcharts
• Desk-check an algorithm

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How Do Programmers Solve
Problems?
• You cannot solve a problem unless you understand
it
• You cannot understand a problem unless you
analyze it
• Most important components of any problem are the
problem’s output and its input

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Step 1 – Analyze the Problem
• Identify output
– What does the user want to see printed on paper,
displayed on the screen, or stored in a file?
• Identify input
– What information will the computer need to know to
print, display, or store the output items?
• Analysis step is most difficult problem-solving step

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Step 2 – Plan the Algorithm
• Pseudocode
– False code, not standardized
– Cannot be understood by a computer
– Used by programmers when planning an algorithm
• Flowchart
– Uses standardized symbols to visually depict an
algorithm

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Step 2 – Plan the Algorithm
(continued)
• Flowchart symbols
– Oval: start/stop symbol
– Parallelogram: input/output symbol
– Rectangle: process symbol
• Flowlines
– Connect symbols
• Processing item: intermediate value that algorithm
uses when processing input into output

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Step 3 – Desk-Check the Algorithm
• Desk-checking (hand-tracing)
– Programmer reviews algorithm while seated at his or
her desk
• Valid data
– Data that algorithm is expecting user to enter
• Invalid data
– Data that algorithm is not expecting user to enter

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Summary
• First three steps in the problem-solving process
– Analyze the problem
– Plan the algorithm
– Desk-check the algorithm
• Programmers use tools to organize their thoughts
– Pseudocode
– Flowcharts

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Summary (continued)
• Algorithm
– Enter data
– Process data
– Display, print, or store data
• Calculation instructions in an algorithm
– Specify what is to be calculated and how to perform
calculation
• After completing analysis and planning steps
– Programmer desk-checks algorithm

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