[Year 12 SofDev] Difference between VB.Net (Express Edition)andVB.NET

[RILEY, Bruce]

A kit has just arrived in all government secondary schools which
licences any student, who is doing a course/subject using VB.NET, to
install the full program on their home computer. The kit was sent,
without any covering letter, to the principal. It arrived at Kew during
the first week of term.

Bruce

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Bruce Riley
ICT Manager
Kew High School
1393 Burke Road
Kew East, VIC. 3102
Australia
 
Phone: 61 3 9859 8652
Fax:     61 3 9819 7880
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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of
a.hopkins at bcc.vic.edu.au
Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2007 1:13 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Year 12 SofDev] Difference between VB.Net (Express
Edition)andVB.NET

It may be worth noting that schools can take out a subscription to
MSDN-AA
(Microsoft Developers Network Academic Alliance) and then legitimately
supply
copies of the full version of VB.NET to those students and staff who
teach/study IT (for home use as well as at school).  It cost my school
about
$1400 for the initial year and renewal is between $600-$700 annually
(from
memory).  The MSDN-AA brings other stuff, but it was mainly the VB.NET I
wanted
in my kids' hands, and my school finds it worthwhile.

I'm not teaching software dev to vce students this year (somewhat sadly)
but
make use of it with year 9 and 10 students, some of who enjoy
programming and
have taken advantage of the program to get full VB.NET copies to use at
home.

Alex Hopkins
Bayside Christian School

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