[Year 12 IPM] Googling ITA

[Bricks J. Winzer]

One thing I find nerdishly fascinating is minutiae like this :)

I remember in my schooling days the alphabet soup that was our timetable - 
many a teacher read COM and thought "Commerce" rather than "Computers"!

In VCE... well, the subject codes were 5 chars, but on the timetable, there 
was a max of 4 chars.  Naturally.  English for example was EN011 so it was 
no problem to change it to EN11 on the timetable.  The only one which didn't 
work was Italian, e.g. LO141 which became L141 because the timetabler read 
the O as 0.

Note it was LO, from LOTE.  Maybe the key is to take Italian out of the 
equation by using LOTE as the name instead.
And of course, maybe use ICT rather than IT.

Staff codes on timetables...?  Ugh, another area of fun ;)

B.J.

Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> Gosh this brings back memories. When VCE IT replaced keyboarding many 
> years ago, I created a frantic panic with the school administration 
> looking for new codes that didnt clash with ITalian. Mamamia .. Sadly 
> Mark, we missed out any International Trombone music classes. Perhaps 
> again we will just call it year 12 IT for the timetable ;-)