In this course we will be using Lucid Chart to create Flowcharts. We will be using it for other purposes in other courses including, but not limited to, developing Entity Relationship Diagrams, UML charts, Network Diagrams, and more.

Of course Lucid Chart is for more than just Computer Science professionals. It can be used to create mind maps, flow diagrams, and many more. We’ll start with setting up and account and getting used to using it, and then future pages will have more information.

Setting up Your Account

Watch the following video to see how to setup an account, and get access to Lucid Chart. The great thing about it, is you can get a free account, without even having to enter a Credit Card. While it is a little limited, it should allow you to do most things for most of your classes here.

Learning to Use Lucid Chart

Once you get signed up for Lucid Chart, you’ll want to learn how to move around in the application. That’s what this video below is for.

Starting with Lucid Chart was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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