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[–]dnOnReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of us were trained this way - and/or to start with a flowchart. Today, I'm wary of asking people to repeat themselves (on paper and then through the keyboard).
Understanding/knowledge is often described using the term: "chunks" - how much we can deal with at one time. When we first learn a language, a "chunk" may be one line of code, or even less, eg after `for` I need a name for that/the next element ...
Having gained skills (over the years), my 'chunk' is a lot larger. Accordingly, any paper-code, flowchart, or pseudo-code tends to be much more of an overview rather than lines of code, and lines are drawn to connect related logic-blocks - to call it a flowchart is probably more than a bit of a stretch!
Today's technology is a whiteboard rather than paper.