[Year 12 IT Apps] RDBMS systems

[Mark KELLY]

P'raps not so much irony as much as concentrating each study on its core
business.

ITA is about databases, so MySQL is valid.

SD is about programming, but apparently too many people were turning it
into a database programming exercise and losing track of programming
fundamentals.

I can see VCAA's point in explicitly banning database extensions in SD: it
certainly seemed to be distracting people towards the end of the previous
study design.


On 22 June 2012 22:28, Brett Groves <groves.brett.g at edumail.vic.gov.au>wrote:

> **
> A delicious irony that we can teach MySQL in Applications but not in
> Software Development, sighs, reaches for red wine.....
>
> Regards,
> Brett Groves
> ICT Manager
> Croydon Maroondah College - Croydon Campus
>
>
> On 15/06/12 13:29, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>
> I have been a bit quiet this year (only teaching year 11 IT)
>
>  Was hugely surprised at the ISTE conferences in the USA how large FMP is
> overseas, especially in the education sector. I think the past dominance of
> MS Access is perhaps a local thing.
>
>  Crikey, wasn't always been like that. I still remember teaching DBase
> III and in some ways, it seemed to be a more explicit towards teaching
> databases and computational thinking. I rediscovered this when I revisited
> the PHP SQL programming in Kevorks splendid book.
>
>  Regards Roland
>
>  On 12/06/2012, at 12:01 PM, Laurie Savage wrote:
>
>  Outside of the Arts/Design world do you know of any major users or large
> scale deployments of FMP?****
>
>
>
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