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Flow-Design is a visual data flow oriented approach to clean code development taught at the Clean Code Developer School.

Although the visual language used to define software behavior through data processing pipelines is simple, students of our trainings often ask for a quick reference to the notational elements. This is what's provided here:

Table of Contents

Flow-Design Visual Notation

• Functional Units - The Building Blocks of Flows
• Relationships between Functional Units
• 1-Dimensional Data Flows
• Typing Data
• 2-Dimensional Data Flows
• 3-Dimensional Data Flows
• Modules
• Software Systems

Implementing Flow Designs

• Introduction
• Input to Functional Units
• Output from Functional Units
• Integrating Functional Units
• Functional Units with Dependencies