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Check Your Understanding:
  1. 1. What is a Flowchart?
    2. A graphical representation of a robot's plan of action, including decisions
    A series of pipes and wires that illustrate electricity flow
    The overall map of a program's progress
    The document that tracks the number of weeks left in the project cycle
  2. 2. Why are Flowcharts important?
    3. They help programmers visualize the decision-making process on the robot
    ROBOTC programs (.RBG) can be written in Flowcharts and loaded directly into the robot
    Robots internally reprocess all instructions into flowcharts in order to think
    The flowchart calculates the trajectory of the rejected plants
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Complete This Activity: Flowcharts!

Flowchart helps us to visualize the decision making process. See if you can use flowcharts to visualize a process in a logical way.
  • Draw a flowchart of one of the following:
    • Steps that you use travel from school to home
    • Steps that you use to write a program for your robot
    • Steps that you use to brush your teeth
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  • A good flowchart can be followed by others and perform the task successfully. Share your flow chart with a fellow classmate or another person to see if they can do the task by following your flowchart!

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