[Informatics] OT: New Digital Technologies Curriculum

[Laurie Savage]

Thanks Neil,

I'll have a look at Small Basic. We're also investigating Alice, but it looks like a complex installation to perform school-wide.

Laurie

> On 14 Dec 2015, at 10:15 AM, Bruckner, Neil D <bruckner.neil.d at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
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> Hi Laurie,
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> I like Small Basic for the junior years, has a very clean GUI, with intelli wheel and explanations.
>  
> Year 9 we are going with Python, and also linking in with Grok Learning.
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> Regards
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> Neil.
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> Subject: [Informatics] OT: New Digital Technologies Curriculum
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> 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?
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> 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)
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> Laurie Savage
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