From: Al Stangenberger (forags@nature.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 17:03:43 PDT
It seems to be a little more than the ANSI programming flowcharting that we
all know
and love.
A Google search for "data flow diagram" (yes, in quotes) will pull up some
useful stuff.
-Al Stangenberger
At 04:46 PM 10/16/02 -0700, Kurt True wrote:
>Well, nobody ever got fired for following the ANSI standard, except maybe
>at Enron. I'd just add that you can pick up a lot of this stuff just by
>looking at how other people have done it. Bond mentioned chartstrings in
>BFS. I would think that that system's voluminous documentation and rich
>tradition of PowerPoint graphics would provide abundant examples of data
>diagrams.
>
>-kt
>
>
>At 01:53 PM 10/16/2002 -0700, tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu wrote:
>>Bond,
>>
>>You could look here for a reference on ANSI X 3.5 diagramming, as used
>>since the 70's. Note the PDF. Ingore linebreak.
>>
>>http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=356570&coll=portal
>>&dl=ACM&CFID=5104505&CFTOKEN=24431256&ret=1#Fulltext
>>
>>Data Flow Diagram means something quite different in Structured Analysis,
>>it would seem.
>>
>>The question seemed straightforward, but then my English was never that
>>good. ;-)
>>
>>
>>At 08:05 AM 10/16/2002 -0700, E. Bond Francisco wrote:
>> >Folks,
>> >
>> >I think I misphrased my request about dataflow diagrams. I know where I
>> >can find the tools, but short of a degree in Computer Science, where can
>>I
>> >find information about the formation of dataflow diagrams, what they do,
>> >how they work, what's the logic of creating them, etc.
>> >
>> >Thanks.
>> >
>> >Bond
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>--
>>Ted Crum
>>tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu
>>
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