[Year 12 SofDev] Pondering SD U3O2

[Mark Kelly]

Bonjour, Roberto.

I am getting a better feel for the SD study design.... it seems to 
require a little more 'artistic interpretation' than the IPM/ITA study 
design did/does  :-)

I know there are many people here with their hands DEEPLY involved in 
the writing of the study design, and I am not hoping to criticise their 
sterling efforts.  However, coming at this as a virgin, some sticky 
issues may be more apparent to me than they would to you veterans.

Yes - I know "veterans" is not the opposite of "virgin", but I can't 
find a thesaurus that offers a synonym that would not get me punched in 
the face.   :-)

I thought the study design's key knowledge might have emphasised the 
nature of the *constraints* of programming for a "portable device" to 
justify the choice of a portable device as the first programming exercise.

Cheers

Mark



Timmer-Arends wrote:
> Hello Mark
> 
> I think Adrain and Claudia have the right interpretation. The constraint 
> of producing a software module suitable for implementation on a portable 
> computing device is intended as a constraint on the user interface (and 
> perhaps other bits as listed by Claudia and Adrian) NOT on the type of 
> program to be written or on the programming language used. And it is 
> this latter point that I think Adrian is trying to make when he writes 
> "The program does not have to be implemented - just modeled."  - 
> students might be required to write a game program that can be used on, 
> say, a Palm Pilot. Instead of trying to come to grips with something 
> like C as well as adapting it to PalmOS, they might write the program 
> using VB; it would/should have the 'look and feel' of the Palm version 
> but under the covers its just plain old VB - hence it is a 'model'.
> 
> Possibly a little dated, 
> http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~winikoff/palm/dev.html contains a list of 
> PalmPilot SDKs (Software Development Kits) and some discussion which 
> could be of interest.
> 
> Regards
> Robert T-A
> Brighton SC
> 
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