For a cheat sheet of the basic flow chart symbols to give you a quick overview and complete with pictures of flow charts see the site at http://breezetree.com/articles/flow-chart-symbols.htm for a pdf file format download. Flowcharts contain other symbols as well like connectors to represent converging steps and for more on these extra symbols within a flow chart layout see Wikipedia's article
. at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart. The ISO or International Organization for Standardization also has a treatment on flowchart symbology at http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=11955 with pdf downloads in English and French. To see an algorithm used during the design phases of a program graphically represented in a flowchart, view the one at http://www.wiley.com/college/busin/icmis/oakman/outline/chap05/slides/symbols.htm. Finally, For a discussion on how to use flowcharts to demonstrate a definition and analysis of a process, Mindtools.com teaches you how to keep it from being obscure and how to find areas of improvement in the process thus charted. For this discussion go to http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_97.htm.
