Hi all. I've just got the latest bulletin. Here's a rundown of the approved languages for 2011...<br><br><br>Approved programming languages and necessary programming skills for 2011 (adapted from VCE Bulletin #80, June 2010) <br>
<br>"In the development of solutions, students should be able to:<br>• develop a graphical user interface (GUI), for use in mobile computing devices, such as laptops, personal digital assistants, gaming consoles, mobile phones<br>
• construct and use data structures, for example multidimensional arrays, strings, sets, lists, tables, records, queues and stacks<br>• design, construct and use files (not databases) to store and retrieve data<br>• design and apply data validation techniques<br>
• use program control structures: selection, iteration and sequencing.<br><br>The purpose-designed software will entail the use of objects, methods and their properties, and event-driven<br>programming."<br><br>Approved languages<br>
<ul><li>Basic (object-oriented variations only e.g. <a href="http://VB.NET">VB.NET</a>)</li><li>C++</li><li>C#</li><li>Objective C </li><li>Visual Fox Pro</li><li>Pascal (object-oriented variations only, e.g. Delphi)</li>
<li>Java</li><li>Perl</li><li>PHP</li><li>Python</li><li>Ruby </li></ul>The bulletin also adds, "With all of the above languages, databases are <b>not</b> to be used to support the construction of solutions."<br clear="all">
<br>Note the removal of Real Basic, Visual J and Visual J++, and the
addition of Objective C. <br>Also note the emphasis on multidimentional arrays and the specific exclusion of databases:
it's good to get that old argument out of the way!<br>
<br>-- <br>Mark Kelly<br>Manager - Information Systems<br>McKinnon Secondary College<br>McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia<br>Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085<br>School Phone +613 8520 9000<br>School Fax +613 9578 9253<br>
<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>Webmaster - <a href="http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a><br>IT Lecture notes: <a href="http://vceit.com">http://vceit.com</a><br>
Moderator: IT Applications Mailing List<br><br>Korma: the philosophy that what you get out of a curry depends on what you put into it.<br>