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<div>Not choosing from an approved list to me raises concerns from a commercial perspective.</div>
<div>Does it :</div>
<div>1) Degrade the quality of syntactic and / or semantic skill set?</div>
<div>2) Cause a dramatic divergence away from industry used and expected knowledge?<br>
3) Encourage a convergence of gaming programming languages in the classroom?</div>
<div>4) Affect how university first year courses that incorporate a programming component will be structured?</div>
<div>5) Actually cause students NOT to choose our IT subject?</div>
<div>6) Open the door for non-IT trained teaching staff to be given an IT teaching load thus causing IT teaching staff to be seen as less needed?</div>
<div>7) Open a robotics option??</div>
<div>8) I will stop here...feel myself getting too deep!</div>
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<div>Me and 2015....? No idea yet! Open to ideas and offers!</div>
<div>Considering applying for an examiner role, but not this year...WAYYY too busy!</div>
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<div>My $1.50 worth.(inflation and a recursive algorithm!)</div>
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On 12 Apr 2014, at 10:16 am, "Mark" <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">"The programming language used in both units does not have to be selected from a list approved by the VCAA, hence there is greater flexibility at the school level."
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<div>This will make many people happy. </div>
<div>I wonder how many schools will use Scratch*.<br>
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<div>Anyway, this new SAT in ITA and SD to replace U3O2+U4O1 will be jolly interesting. </div>
<div>It's acknowledging the lost benefits of the good old deep-learning SAC days.<br>
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<div><i>* Sadly for Scratch fans, "the VCAA will continue to publish a list of programming language capabilities."</i></div>
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