[Year 12 IT Apps] Validating information?

[Kent Beveridge]

No argument Mark...you're right and I agree with your point.
Kent
 
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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark Kelly
Sent: Wed 8/19/2009 2:32 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Validating information?



Here's an interesting one for those of you who enjoy a good 5 minute
argument.

ITA U3O1 - last key knowledge dotpoint: techniques for validating data
and information.

Now, call me an old fuddy duddy, but I believe in our glorious current
Glossary which says:  "Validate - To check that data input to a computer
system is of an appropriate type for processing and within acceptable
boundaries."

Not 'information'.  Data.

To my way of thinking information (output) can be tested, not validated.

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Mark Kelly
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McKinnon Secondary College
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Why do people mis-spell 'grammar' and mispronounce 'pronuniciation'?
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