<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 November 2016 at 15:52, Sandra Mobbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.mobbs@cccc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">s.mobbs@cccc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I would have thought by the phrasing "..including associative arrays (or dictionaries, or hash tables)..." that the question would be asked in a way that wouldn't directly test hash tables. It was discussed on this list back on the 29 September and hash tables were listed as something that not all students had to know.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Sandra</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I asked this at the end of 2015... </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><i>"Maybe someone can help with this, or it might require Paula.<br>In SD U4O1 KK2 it refers to "uses of data structures to organise and manipulate data, including associative arrays (or dictionaries or hash tables)"<br>I'm not sure how to interpret the 'or's after 'including'. Does it mean"<br>- dictionaries and hash tables are synonyms for associative arrays?<br>- we may choose between dictionaries and hash tables and associative arrays?<br>Neither of those makes much sense. <br>What does it mean in terms of teaching KK?"</i><br><br>There was no reply from VCAA.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">You said that </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">"hash tables were listed as something that not all students had to know".</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Who listed that? If it wasn't VCAA, it was an opinion, but not canonical.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">As I've said before publicly on this list, my understanding is that all 3 terms (assoc arrays, dictionaries, hash tables) are <b>synonyms</b> from VCAA's POV.</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Since VCAA has not contradicted this, I can only assume it's true.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Regards,</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Mark</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><snip></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com">mark@vceit.com</a></div></div><div class="gmail-m_3949704297170125619gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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