ICA-CP: 10/29/2007 - Eliza and Flow Charts

Good morning!

Today, we're going to cover some new programming theory on flow charts. A flow chart is a graphic illustration of a computer program. For the other part of class, we're going to work on our Eliza program (remember, it's half of your semster project grade).

Here's the grading breakdown of the 75 points for your Eliza project:

10 points: algorithm document explaining the emotive words and responses (7 per person on team)
10 points: flow chart of program
10 points: user documentation explaining how to install your program and how the program runs in screen comments and in a word document user manual
10 points: has line or multi-line comments explaining how the program runs as well as identifying emotive words and responses
35 points: program is compiled and runs

Some basic information on flow charting symbols may be found at this web site:
http://deming.eng.clemson.edu/pub/tutorials/qctools/flowm.htm

A flow chart symbol "cheat sheet", which I am handing out to you, may be found here:
http://www.breezetree.com/articles/flow-chart-symbols.htm

There's also an example for if and if/else statements in our textbook on page 99.