[Year 12 IT Apps] Unit 2 languages?

[Brendyn Hancock]

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Mr Brendyn Hancock | ICT Director | Nagle College

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of David B. Thomas
Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2014 10:12 AM
To: itapps at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Unit 2 languages?

Hi,
I am teaching IT unit 2 for the first time but I have got a vast background in IT itself.
Outcome 2 requires the students to use a programming language and although I know Basic and an object oriented language called Ada inside out; there may be quite a steep learning curve for me if I was to return to c++. I haven't used it for a while.

I was wondering if there was any stats about what languages are taught in Unit 2? Is it OK to use something like Scratch? One of my students suggested Processing.org and although I haven't had a good look it seems interesting.

Basically, I have a small class who have English as a second language and they haven't programmed before. Is it ok to use what I regard as a more visual language? Perhaps even a "in browser" language?
Regards,
David.


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