Terms & Flowchart

IPO (Input-Process-Output)

a fundamental design of how a system (or computer program) works. sense.

Input

Before a computer can operate on data, the data need to be entered

Processing

Something is done with the data (calculations)

Output

A result is displayed

Storage

: Location(s) where information is placed for possible use at a later point in time. We will identify our variables here

Pseudo-code

a text-based description of the instructions used to solve the problem.

flowchart

a diagram that represents an algorithm or process.

A Python program

the sequence of Python statements that will be followed to accomplish the intended task

oval

start or end

rectangle

computational steps or processing

parallelogram

input or output

diamond

decision

circle

connector