[Informatics] informatics Digest, Vol 12, Issue 45

Tue Oct 11 14:07:14 AEDT 2016

Thanks for your reply Quentin. I am very familiar with Mark's contribution
to this community (Thanks Mark) - as I've constantly frequented his
materials over the last 5 years :) I did not know they existed as I could
not originally find them but upon refining my google search, alas they have
been found. Thanks for reminding me these exist (and Cheers Mark once
again).

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>    1. Re: VCAA Practice Exam - Sect. C, Q1, Sect. B, Q4.
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> From: "Lydall, Quentin C" <lydall.quentin.c at edumail.vic.gov.au>
> Subject: Re: [Informatics] VCAA Practice Exam - Sect. C, Q1, Sect. B,
>         Q4.
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> Hi Ashley and Ben,
> I agree it is a strange question because as a software developer I never
> saw that type of diagram and wonder where it came from. But I also agree
> that the B path is followed if something was missed by the user, some other
> validation failed, or the user chose to edit their entry before proceding.
> The Gantt chart question (C Q9) was also a bit strange because overwriting
> the original time line is clumsy, though it was a useful lesson in exam
> technique for my students.
> Mark Kelly has written comments on the answers which are useful, though I
> disagree that a milestone (Task D) would take up a whole day, and Sect C 2
> B ii should include Date_Attending. Google VCE Informatics and you will
> find his website.
> Thanks, Mark, BTW.
> Cheers,
> Quentin Lydall
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> From: <informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:informatics-
> bounces at edulists.com.au>> on behalf of Ashley Foley <
> foleya at stkevins.vic.edu.au<mailto:foleya at stkevins.vic.edu.au>>
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> informatics at edulists.com.au<mailto:informatics at edulists.com.au>>
> Date: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 at 8:00 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Informatics] VCAA Practice Exam - Sect. C, Q1, Sect. B, Q4.
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> Ben,
> My take was that the user had failed to supply all the required data and
> so could not move on until they had done so.
> Ashley
>
> On 10 October 2016 at 16:07, Benn POLLOCK <pol at wantirnacollege.vic.edu.au
> <mailto:pol at wantirnacollege.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Looking for some feedback on the VCAA Inforamtics Sample exam. As there is
> no sample answers I'm just unsure on some questions as to what the best
> response would be.
>
> Section C - Q1A -
> State the condition(s) that would cause the paths labelled B to be
> followed.
>
> Is this as simple as - The user is able to return to the beginning of the
> purchasing process at the end (display total cost) if they decide they wish
> to edit their order.
>
> I feel somewhat dumb that this question is troubling me the most as it's
> only 1 mark and I find the rest of the exam somewhat easy.
>
> Section B - Q4 - key words here to me are efficient and accurately. She is
> trying to put information from 300 photos into a spreadsheet/database to
> help her identify how many of each different house type there was in what
> decade. I was thinking along the lines of developing a spreadsheet/access
> with the appropriate fields/rows (decade & house type) and then "codifying"
> each the photo into the appropriate category - followed by using a COUNTIF
> or a Query (if using Access) to generate a count of different types of
> houses as per Q4b. Then i thought, is this efficient? It seems like it
> would take a long time to do this - but how else do you convert visual
> data, into text quickly?? What are your thoughts on this?
>
> Maybe i'm having a "brain fart" moment and missing something more obvious
> here?
>
> Looking forward to your feedback.
> Cheers :)
> --
> Benn Pollock
> Year 9 Level Leader
> VCE Computing & Informatics Teacher
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