[Informatics] OT: New Digital Technologies Curriculum

[ken price]

The main source of professional development for the Digital Technologies
curriculum in Australia is the MOOCs run by CSER. From memory they focussed
on *JavaScript* and *Processing* in the 7/8 course.

For years 9 and 10 you could probably add Python into the mix - given that
you'd probably want a language that is free, has no commercial
allegiance,has good technical documentation and support, has an education
support community, is in relatively widespread use, has a reasonably low
barrier to entry, and has some application in the wider world. And isn't
the same language that students have learned since year 3.

kp

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are investigating the new curriculum, does anybody have any good
> thoughts about suitable programming languages for these two criteria? Which
> mailing list is focusing on this area?
>
> *Years 7/8*
> Develop and modify programs with user interfaces involving branching,
> iteration and functions using a general-purpose programming language
> (VCDTCD043)
>
> *Year 9*
> Develop modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures
> including using an object-oriented programming language (VCDTCD053)
>
> Laurie Savage
> https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home
>
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