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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background-color:#e0e0e0;">Flowgorithm</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Programming_paradigm" title="Programming paradigm">Paradigm</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Structured_programming" title="Structured programming">Structured</a>, <a href="Imperative_programming" title="Imperative programming">imperative</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Software_design" title="Software design">Designed by</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Devin Cook</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First appeared</th><td class="infobox-data">2014</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">4.5.0

/ October 8, 2024</div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">

</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Type_system" title="Type system">Typing discipline</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Type_system" title="Type system">Static, strong, safe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Implementation language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="C_Sharp_(programming_language)" title="C Sharp (programming language)">C#</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">OS</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Freeware" title="Freeware">Freeware</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Filename_extension" title="Filename extension">Filename extensions</a></th><td class="infobox-data">.fprg</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://flowgorithm.org/">flowgorithm<wbr>.org</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #EEEEEE;">Influenced by</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="Flowchart" title="Flowchart">Flowcharts</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Flowgorithm</b> is a graphical <a href="Authoring_tool" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoring tool">authoring tool</a> which allows users to write and execute programs using <a href="Flowchart" title="Flowchart">flowcharts</a>. The approach is designed to emphasize the algorithm rather than the syntax of a specific programming language.<sup id="cite_ref-paper_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-paper-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The flowchart can be converted to several major programming languages. Flowgorithm was created at <a href="Sacramento_State_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacramento State University">Sacramento State University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin_of_name">Origin of name</h2></div>

<p>The name is a <a href="Portmanteau" class="mw-redirect" title="Portmanteau">portmanteau</a> of "<a href="Flowchart" title="Flowchart">flowchart</a>" and "<a href="Algorithm" title="Algorithm">algorithm</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-info_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-info-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Supported_programming_languages">Supported programming languages</h2></div>

<p>Flowgorithm can interactively translate flowchart programs into <a href="Source_code" title="Source code">source code</a> written in other programming languages. As the user steps through their flowchart, the related code in the translated program is automatically highlighted. The following programming languages are supported:<sup id="cite_ref-features_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-features-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<li><a href="Delphi_(programming_language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Delphi (programming language)">Delphi</a></li>

<li><a href="Groovy_(programming_language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Groovy (programming language)">Groovy</a></li>

<li><a href="JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a></li>

<li><a href="Kotlin_(programming_language)" title="Kotlin (programming language)">Kotlin</a></li>

<li><a href="PowerShell" title="PowerShell">PowerShell</a></li>

<li><a href="Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a></li>

<li><a href="QBasic" title="QBasic">QBasic</a></li>

<li><a href="Swift_(programming_language)" title="Swift (programming language)">Swift 2 & 3</a></li>

<li><a href="TypeScript" title="TypeScript">TypeScript</a></li>

<li><a href="Visual_Basic_for_Applications" title="Visual Basic for Applications">Visual Basic for Applications</a></li>

<li><a href="Visual_Basic_.NET" class="mw-redirect" title="Visual Basic .NET">Visual Basic .NET</a></li></ul></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Multilingual_support">Multilingual support</h2></div>

<p>Besides English, Flowgorithm supports other spoken languages. These are:<sup id="cite_ref-features_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-features-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li>Arabic</li>

<li>Chinese (Simplified & Traditional)</li>

<li>Czech</li>

<li>Dutch</li>

<li>French</li>

<li>Galician</li>

<li>German</li>

<li>Hungarian</li>

<li>Indonesian</li>

<li>Italian</li>

<li>Japanese</li>

<li>Mongolian</li>

<li><a href="Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a></li>

<li>Polish</li>

<li>Portuguese</li>

<li>Russian</li>

<li>Slovenian</li>

<li>Spanish - Mexican and Castilian dialects</li>

<li>Turkish</li>

<li>Ukrainian</li></ul></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Graphical_shapes">Graphical shapes</h2></div>

<p>Flowgorithm combines the classic flowchart symbols and those used by SDL diagrams. The color of each shape is shared by the associated generated code and the console window. The colors can be changed to several built-in themes.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Example">Example</h2></div>

<p>The image below has the solution for <a href="99_Bottles_of_Beer" title="99 Bottles of Beer">99 Bottles of Beer</a>. A function is used to return a string that either contains the singular "bottle" or plural "bottles" depending on the value of the parameter.

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<p>Other <a href="Educational_programming_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Educational programming language">educational programming languages</a> include:

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<ul><li><a href="Alice_(software)" title="Alice (software)">Alice</a></li>

<li><a href="DRAKON" title="DRAKON">DRAKON</a></li>

<li><a href="Microsoft_Small_Basic" title="Microsoft Small Basic">Microsoft Small Basic</a></li>

<li><a href="Raptor_(programming_language)" title="Raptor (programming language)">Raptor</a></li>

<li><a href="Scratch_(programming_language)" title="Scratch (programming language)">Scratch</a>

<ul><li><a href="Blockly" title="Blockly">Blockly</a>, interface used by Scratch to make the code blocks</li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Visual_Logic_(programming_language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visual Logic (programming language)">Visual Logic</a></li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFKourouma2016" class="citation web cs1">Kourouma, Mathieu (22 October 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309354785">"Capabilities and Features of Raptor, Visual Logic, and Flowgorithm for Program Logic and Design"</a>. <i>ResearchGate</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 July</span> 2017</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-info-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-info_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160316213922/http://flowgorithm.org/about/info.htm">"Info"</a>. <i>Flowgorithm</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flowgorithm.org/about/info.htm">the original</a> on 2016-03-16<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-01-15</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-features-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-features_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-features_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151209113644/http://flowgorithm.org/about/features.htm">"Features"</a>. <i>Flowgorithm</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flowgorithm.org/about/features.htm">the original</a> on 2015-12-09<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-01-15</span></span>.</cite></span>

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