When I was in school in the mid-80's flowcharts were already a bit outdated, and I've never seen them since in my 40 years of programming.

The problem with flowcharts is that a real program has so many conditional paths you can't possibly fit it on paper. One solution is to have a very high level flowchart and have separate flowcharts to "zoom in" on parts. I doubt (and the industry seems to think so too) that flowcharts help in any way in modern programming.