[Year 12 IT Apps] Forthcoming queries
Robert Hind
robert at yinnar.com
Mon Jul 8 18:35:48 EST 2013
Hi Andrew,
Agree totally with you that postcodes should be text.
But the point made by Mark was that there has not been any reply on this issue from "the top".
Any reply by Paula to Mark's query should have been to the list.
. . . and talking of Hindsight . . . I have plenty :-)
Robert Hind
Retired
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Shortell
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Forthcoming queries
Hi Robert
To me, after reading all the list emails, text is the only possible entry data type
Any text data can be converted to number if the programmer wants to do a spread / range check
When I wrote exams for Monash Uni and RMIT Uni I ensured that students understood that postcodes and phone numbers were text. This was over ten years ago.
I had just assumed that Paula had replied to Mark off list.....
If the exam does not treat postcodes and phone numbers as text then it needs to be fixed before the final print run in early August. It is an expensive exercise to reprint 1500 PAPER (droll emphasis on paper) exams
After all of the list discussion the only people who would be teaching postcodes as number would be those who don't read the lists.
I always use postcodes as the great example of things where one has to think carefully about what is actually done with the data . This is why data dictionaries are so important (in hindsight)
Andrew
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On 08/07/2013, at 3:00 PM, "Robert Hind" <robert at yinnar.com> wrote:
I sympathise with Mark :-)
Paula does seem to have forgotten to follow up on her 30 May email where she said, in response to a query from Mark re the data type for post codes
"Will consult with relevant colleagues and get back to you. "
It would be useful information for us all to have.
Robert Hind
Retired
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Scott
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Forthcoming queries
I wouldn't mind an answer re postcodes.
Mark Scott
Luther College
Mark Scott
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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Christophersen, Paula P [christophersen.paula.p at edumail.vic.gov.au]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:47 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List (sofdev at edulists.com.au); Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List (itapps at edulists.com.au); Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List; Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List (yr11it at edulists.com.au)
Cc: Compton, Leanne L
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Forthcoming queries
Dear colleagues
Between 6 July and 11 August I will be taking recreation leave and heading to the northern hemisphere. If you have any specific IT queries during that period could you please direct them to:
Leanne Compton: compton.leanne.l at edumail.vic.gov.au
Looking forward to seeing you at the VITTA conference.
Regards
Paula
Paula Christophersen
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