NS and flowcharts may not be in the study design, but they are clearly methods for expressing an algorithm and must be acceptable answers, IMHO.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 September 2011 10:28, Travis Parker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Travis.Parker@beaconhills.vic.edu.au">Travis.Parker@beaconhills.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-AU"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Again (And please excuse my ignorance as a first year SD teacher), Question 2B (Short answer) asks “Identify a method for expressing an algorithm”. The obvious answer is pseudocode, which all of my students would put. However, the solution pathway suggest that NS diagrams and flowcharts would be acceptable answers – I thought that they weren’t part of the 2011-2014 Study Design and therefore shouldn’t be accepted, even though technically correct? I would just like clarification on that one (I did teach them both NS-Diagrams and flowcharts in U2 AOS2 when they used the “Friendship algorithm” flowchart from <i>The Big Bang theory</i> and created a program on making friends after converting it to pseudocode).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Cheers and thanks again!<u></u><u></u></span></p><div class="im">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Trav<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="132655887f0f0ecc__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Margaret King Iaquinto<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] VITTA Unit 4 Exam - MC mistake<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">VITTA should have sent you the updated files, Travis. </span><br>
</p><div class="im"><br>VK3CFI <br><br><b>On Wed Sep 14 7:13 , 'Travis Parker' sent:</b><u></u><u></u></div><p></p><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Guys,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m loving tearing apart the VITTA exams and placing them within <i>Key Knowledge</i> for students as sample questions, however have come across another error on Q3 of multiple choice:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So either (C) should change “Personal†to “Private†or (D) should change “Verified†to “Virtual†. The solution pathway says (D) is correct, so I might change that, but still give the original question in that form to students to show what may happen on an exam!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">…..or have I just been using incorrect terminology for 8 months?!?!?!?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cheers<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Trav<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"" lang="EN-US">Travis Parker</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-US">Head of ICT</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-US">Beaconhills College Pakenham</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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