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Thread: Help With Flowchart (Non-Code Issue)

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    Default Help With Flowchart (Non-Code Issue)

    Hello everyone and Good Morning! In learning about Counters and Accumulators, I have been given the task to create a flowchart that does the following:

    "Ask the user for a positive, whole number > 0, call it x. Output all the numbers from 1 up to x."

    I have a few flowcharts written out that don't quite do what I want them to do when I desk-check them. I could use a little help/ a nudge in the right direction (As this forum is filled with people who tend to do just that, and only that *no offense*)

    A flowchart I have created goes as follows in descending order:

    Start
    (Counter) outX = outX + 0
    Output - "Enter positive whole number"
    Input - x

    Decision (outX = x)?

    -No- (x = x -1) (outX = outX + 1) >>>>>>>> Output " outX " >>>> Loop back to decision

    -Yes- Output "outX, x"

    Stop



    I know this is very basic and I am missing something, but I don't quite know what. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.


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    Default Re: Help With Flowchart (Non-Code Issue)

    A few questions:
    1. Why have you initialized your counter to outX + 0? Why not just 0?
    2. I don't know if it would be part of your requirements, but in a real-life situation, you would want to varify that the user did in fact give you a number > 0. Just because you tell a user to do something, doesn't mean they actually will.
    3. Why are you decrementing x in your loop? If you subtract x by 1 and add outX by 1, you are technically advancing the counter by 2 since you do an equals check with outX and x (and, if x is odd, you will pass right by the value since they will never equal each other).
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