<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Lorraine<div class="">enter your students into the NCSS - they will use Python</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">look at PHP or visual basic for unit 3, 4 or extend yourself significantly and choose a language not done by most of us !!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Choosing a common language will help in terms of support from others …</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I use visual Studio because I know it, Many use it</div><div class="">Also there are quite a few that use PHP (DLTV also sells books on how to use it)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">there are others …</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A very useful thing is to do NCSS competition</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Practise coding concepts - actual language is less important</div><div class="">but cover concepts</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Feel free to contact me off list </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good Luck</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andrew<br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Jun 2016, at 5:01 pm, Lorraine Bignell <<a href="mailto:lbignell@netspace.net.au" class="">lbignell@netspace.net.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class="">Hi<br class=""><br class="">I am not teaching Software Development this year but am
thinking about what language to teach in Unit 2 Computing. Would
Javascript be suitable? What languages are people using in Units 3 and
4?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks<br class=""><br class="">Lorraine Bignell<br class="">Kingswood College<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div>
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