<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hi Claudia,</div><div><br></div><div>We're not fully Apple but I do use one personally.</div><div><br></div><div>We moved from Visual Basic to Java which has been quite tricky. Kevork has been legendary with provision of some resources.</div><div><br></div><div>The idea was to use android as the end goal but in practice XML creates a bit of a blockage that I've not yet been able to overcome.</div><div><br></div><div>Although the students are using Windows versions of Eclipse my MacBook Pro runs the same thing just fine.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best </div><div><br></div><div>Neil</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 14 Sep 2014, at 4:11 pm, Claudia Graham <<a href="mailto:claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au">claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We changed mid-year to a fully Apple environment, however our lab will still be windows until the start of 2016.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We have used Visual Basic express for many years, but we need to look for something new to do for SD in 2016 (staff will need to get PD in 2015) – those that are in a fully Apple environment what are you using for SD?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Regards<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; 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