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<div>Carlos,</div>
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<div>In my opinion no, I only selected it because that is what I felt most comfortable with, being the first time I taught the subject. Hence I did not want to have to learn another language…The study guide has a list of the preferred languages I think? Someone
will correct me if I am wrong…..been a while since I read it….</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Carlos Santander <<a href="mailto:CSantander@mcc.vic.edu.au">CSantander@mcc.vic.edu.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at 2:00 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Programming Languages?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">This will really help planning something for a head start timetable. Over the course of the year is it essential for students to do programming such as Visual Basic??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">
sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevork KROZIAN<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 26, 2014 1:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Programming Languages?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#1F497D">A great find John and thanks for sharing it with us</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#1F497D">Kevork</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Savage, John L<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 26 November 2014 1:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Programming Languages?</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Python is a very nice first language, and very powerful too. I have been trialling
<a href="http://www.programarcadegames.com/">http://www.programarcadegames.com/</a> (an American college course) with a year 10 class. They like it and they get it. We’ve looked at codeacademy.com and a few others over the past couple of years and while they
are often very slick we’ve been unimpressed by either their pedagogy or suitability for secondary students.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">This site presents a self-paced chapter by chapter program. Each chapter is supported by videos on Youtube and consists of a teaching block where students would do some copy and paste into IDLE, a set of multiple choice
questions to test understanding, a theory worksheet to reinforce, and finally a lab to apply. The labs are well structured and the students are guided through the structure and logic of a program without being able to copy and paste. I find it incorporates
well into a classroom where I can sit with individual kids and steer them in a useful direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Lesson one treats IPO by building little specialist calculators, and by lesson 4 the kids are writing a text based adventure game (based on an old BASIC game “Camel”). If a student perseveres (and they probably will because
it’s fun) they will have produced their own animated game, having explored arrays, iteration and classes along the way.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">With WingIDE or Pycharm it’s a great combination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Carlos Santander<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 SofDev] Programming Languages?</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This will be my first year teaching SD, just wanted to know what programming languages everybody uses throughout the year?<span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m thinking that it might be good to use the Term break to set online tutorials for various programming languages or is best to focus on one?<span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.<span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="576" height="168" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01D00981.4E77A740" alt="CSANTANDER"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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