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Greetings Litsa
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<div>Depends on how you approach the coding.</div>
<div>Visual Studio runs quite well in macOS </div>
<div>XAMPP the same</div>
<div>Brackets ditto</div>
<div>GanttChart works well on macOS<br>
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Screenshots of output (windows-prtscrn/cmd-shift-option-4) can be pasted directly into the student blog or Gantt chart </div>
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<div>Visual Basic however does not play nice with macOS</div>
<div>Or FLASH</div>
<div>Or ActiveX</div>
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<div>These have simple work around if you know in advance, or just choose something else.</div>
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<div>I would recommend PHP for Software Development as an excellent introduction to server side applications. An added feature is the close integration with MySQL.</div>
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<div>We regularly have 20% of our students running macOS, otherwise various incantations of winOS. Many on WIN8, occasionally WIN7, in 2018... macOS has a similar spread ElCapitan(10.11), Sierra/HighSierra (10.12/13) and now Mojave(10.14) expect incompatibilities
with 32-64 versions of software and potential image format issues.</div>
<div><a href="https://www.techradar.com/au/how-to/macos-1014-mojave-problems-how-to-fix-them">https://www.techradar.com/au/how-to/macos-1014-mojave-problems-how-to-fix-them</a></div>
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<span>From: Litsa Tzelepis <<a href="mailto:htzelepis@msj.vic.edu.au">htzelepis@msj.vic.edu.au</a>></span><br>
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<span>Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] PCs and MAC</span><br>
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<span>Thank-you Benjamin - that sounds very logical and reasonable.</span><br>
<span>I appreciate you getting back to me - many thanks :-)</span><br>
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<span>On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:09 PM Benjamin Ratcliffe <</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>From my experience, it comes down to the availability for your chosen</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I wanted to ensure all students had access, but in the end I decided to</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I made it clear from the outset that students who did not have access to a</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>The other option is to choose a language/development environment that</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>it, but it could make marking and review harder for you.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Happy to discuss further: <a href="mailto:Benjamin.ratcliffe@yvg.vic.edu.au">
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>*Subject: *[Year 12 SofDev] PCs and MAC</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Hello.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Just a quick question I hope.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>My IT lab has PCs but my students have Mac laptops.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>I have commenced our headstart program last year using the PCs. Are my</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>this but I’m new to this. Previously we are all Windows.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Thank you kindly in advance.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Litsa :-)</span><br>
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