[Year 12 IT Apps] Forthcoming queries

Mon Jul 8 21:42:19 EST 2013

Dear colleagues

Postcodes will be treated as text.

Thank you Andrew for your contribution on this matter.

Regards

Paula

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] on behalf of Andrew Shortell [shortell at get2me.net]
Sent: Monday, 8 July 2013 5:35 PM
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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<mailto: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

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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
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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<mailto:compton.leanne.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>

Looking forward to seeing you at the VITTA conference.

Regards
Paula

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