I'm sorry - I wasn't trying to do that - you just said you hadn't seen a flowchart, and I wanted to show you enough of them, so that you knew that you actually DID know what a flowchart was.
I think if you weren't being "tested" - you might have actually known the answer, because we've all used them at one time
or another. We just don't always call them flowcharts.
Come to think of it - I think the only reason I learned it in school was because of my short class in mechanical drawing. Since then, my jobs (and fixing equipment and vehicles on the farm) have been the main places I used them. And then, of course, at work - troubleshooting the equipment, we had to use a flowchart, and when I worked in the water treatment plant, the Federal government gives you a flowchart (though they call it a different name, too), for
chemical spills, emissions, etc.
I think it would be a super idea to teach that in school - it gets used in every factory in the world. They just call them "Standards of Operation" - but they are set up as flowcharts.
We (especially us older folks) have definitely had to self-teach ourselves LOTS of stuff. I remember being a little annoyed at being called by our parents bcause they couldn't set the clock on the vcr (they insisted on unplugging it before going to bed). Now, I am them - I still haven't been able to make my new "does everything" blu-ray disc player play off my computer.
- Even though it has a troubleshooting flow chart.
Beth
what were they used for? 
