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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">PHP is a nice, useful language and there are a lot of tutorials out there. Ruby on Rails is interesting, especially if you’re looking at rapid development methodologies and SQL.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Howard, David<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 26 November 2014 2:31 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></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Hi Carlos,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">We mainly use PHP here. We had one student chose Python this year though. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Selina Dennis <<a href="mailto:selina@dennis.net.au">selina@dennis.net.au</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Year List <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 26 November 2014 1:02 pm<br>
<b>To: </b>Year List <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Programming Languages?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Carlos,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I teach Python as it’s very similar to pseudocode and is great as a “first language” to teach students. Many universities also teach Python as part of a first year computer science
course, so it’s a nice head-start for students continuing on to university IT.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">For my head start program I have students work through some of the coding exercises on
<a href="http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/python">http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/python</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hope that helps!</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Selina Dennis</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Strathmore Secondary College</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">
<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>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 style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Hi everyone,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">This will be my first year teaching SD, just wanted to know what programming languages everybody uses throughout the year?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">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><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Thanks.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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