P'raps not so much irony as much as concentrating each study on its core business. <br><br>ITA is about databases, so MySQL is valid. <br><br>SD is about programming, but apparently too many people were turning it into a database programming exercise and losing track of programming fundamentals.<br>
<br>I can see VCAA's point in explicitly banning database extensions in SD: it certainly seemed to be distracting people towards the end of the previous study design.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 June 2012 22:28, Brett Groves <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:groves.brett.g@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">groves.brett.g@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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A delicious irony that we can teach MySQL in Applications but not in
Software Development, sighs, reaches for red wine.....<br>
<pre cols="72">Regards,
Brett Groves
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Croydon Maroondah College - Croydon Campus</pre>
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On 15/06/12 13:29, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
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I have been a bit quiet this year (only teaching year 11 IT)
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<div>Was hugely surprised at the ISTE conferences in the USA how
large FMP is overseas, especially in the education sector. I
think the past dominance of MS Access is perhaps a local thing.</div>
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<div>Crikey, wasn't always been like that. I still remember
teaching DBase III and in some ways, it seemed to be a more
explicit towards teaching databases and computational thinking.
I rediscovered this when I revisited the PHP SQL programming in
Kevorks splendid book.</div>
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<div>Regards Roland</div>
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<div>On 12/06/2012, at 12:01 PM, Laurie Savage wrote:</div>
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of the Arts/Design world do you know of any major
users or large scale deployments of FMP?<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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