<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#351c75">Thank-you Benjamin - that sounds very logical and reasonable.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#351c75">I appreciate you getting back to me - many thanks :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#351c75">Litsa</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#351c75"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:09 PM Benjamin Ratcliffe <<a href="mailto:Benjamin.Ratcliffe@yvg.vic.edu.au">Benjamin.Ratcliffe@yvg.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi Litsa,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">From my experience, it comes down to the availability for your chosen language/development environment and it’s availability/portability on the two platforms.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I wanted to ensure all students had access, but in the end I decided to keep with the school’s standard: Visual Basic / Visual Studio / Windows.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I made it clear from the outset that students who did not have access to a Windows PC would need to plan accordingly, e.g., using the school’s computer labs, a home PC or set up their Apple Macs to also run Windows.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The other option is to choose a language/development environment that works on both platforms, although it is always a risk switching code between two OSs, so I would be suggesting student pick one and stick with it,
but it could make marking and review harder for you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Happy to discuss further: <a href="mailto:Benjamin.ratcliffe@yvg.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">
Benjamin.ratcliffe@yvg.vic.edu.au</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ben<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">sofdev <<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>> on behalf of Litsa Tzelepis <<a href="mailto:htzelepis@msj.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">htzelepis@msj.vic.edu.au</a>><br>
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<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>" <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Year 12 SofDev] PCs and MAC<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just a quick question I hope. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My IT lab has PCs but my students have Mac laptops. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have commenced our headstart program last year using the PCs. Are my students going to have problems working between the 2 OSs? I should know this but I’m new to this. Previously we are all Windows.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you kindly in advance. <u></u><u></u></p>
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