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Life & fun · November 15, 2023

FlowRun

Title says it all, you can make a flowchart and run it in your browser. I hated it in school when we were just drawing these on a piece of paper.. Only later when we started with Pascal it kinda clicked to me. It is mostly intended for teaching basics of programming. Used in lots of schools all around the world. Gets around 500 daily users. There is a series of interactive tutorials: https://flowrun.io/tutorials Also a free ebook: https://leanpub.com/learnprogrammingwithflowrun Editor is open source: https://github.com/sacode387/FlowRun…

FlowRun launched on November 15, 2023 with 3 votes, #2,042 of 4,332 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Interactive visual editor for making programs. Works in any browser. Generates real-world code for many popular programming languages.

FlowRun - runnable, executable flowcharts. Visual programming. Visualize complex flows and algorithms

Start in the scratchpad, keep learning with tutorials, then use the open learning hub for docs, the paperback, and optional support. My students love the FlowRun app because it's possible to run the flowchart (not just draw it), so they can follow the execution and find bugs in an easier way. I'm using it in 3 of my classrooms with great results. The concepts were understood faster and the automatic code generation is very nice. It is a lot easier to teach flowcharts theory by making examples in a very fast way. I'm using FlowRun with my highschool students with great success. Since Flowrun runs in browser it's very useful for students who often don't have a computer. The most intuitive way…from flowrun.io

In the maker’s words, at launch

Title says it all, you can make a flowchart and run it in your browser. I hated it in school when we were just drawing these on a piece of paper.. Only later when we started with Pascal it kinda clicked to me. It is mostly intended for teaching basics of programming. Used in lots of schools all around the world. Gets…

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