[Year 12 SofDev] Pondering SD U3O2
Mark Kelly
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
Tue Feb 13 10:46:07 EST 2007
Hi all. Have spent a quiet time with the study design...
Can someone suggest why U3O2 would specify a software module for a
*portable* computing device. It seems oddly esoteric and specialised
for a student's very first programming task.
I wouldn't be game to program for my Palm OS, or for a Nokia phone.
One would have thought a module for a traditional computing system would
be more logical. (Yes, I do realise a laptop is both portable and
traditional so kids can easily write a module for a "normal" PC :-)
Just wonderin' what VCAA's motives might have been.
And while I'm here, I'm curious what languages people have chosen. My
fallback is VB, but I am toying with Python as an alternative - and
trying to get used to its odd punctuation and lack of endings to loops
and IF constructs.
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