[Year 12 SofDev] SD U3O2 - Van Gogo

[Mark Kelly]

Hi Adrian.  I was confident VB6 was acceptable, but my kids did most of 
their preparation with VB2005 and it was annoying to have gremlins force 
a late change.  I quite like VB6 but it's nearly 10 years old and not 
free for kids to legally download.

Of course if my kids read that paragraph, their brains would 
automatically filter out the word "legally"  :-)

(Actually, to be perfectly honest I still fire up Visual BASIC for DOS 
for Quick and Dirty jobs.  It was the successor to QuickBasic 4.5 with a 
cute text GUI that I completely ignore.)

Adrian Janson wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> As always - looks great!
> 
> BTW: It doesn't really matter what version of VB.Net (or even VB6) you use -
> it is really all just about structures and concepts.  Let's face it,
> whatever they choose to use will be in a different version or incarnation by
> the time they reach industry....
> 
> I find that I still sell copies of my VB6 book to schools...
> 
> Cheers,
> Adrian
> 
> Adrian Janson
> VITTA President
> Director of ICT
> Melbourne High School
> Forrest Hill, South Yarra
> p: (03) 9826 0711
> f: (03) 9826 8767
> e: jansona at mhs.vic.edu.au
> www.mhs.vic.edu.au

> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
> Sent: Monday, 14 May 2007 8:46 AM
> To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] SD U3O2 - Van Gogo
> 
> Hi all
> 
> After much dillydallying I finally decided on an outcome for U3O2, which 
> is attached.
> 
> The problem was coming up with a module that kids couldn't Google and 
> download within 2 minutes.
> 
> Inspired by the study design's advice for teachers, here is Van Gogo: 
> Painter Extraordinaire.  The pix are linked to the Word doc.
> 
> It's not _too_ demanding on the kids who still can't get an IF..ENDIF 
> working without a mental hernia, but the gun programmers should still be 
> able to strut their stuff.
> 
> Criticism will be welcome.
> 
> On a sidenote, I've been having endless troubles running VB 2005 Express 
> on the network.  It insists on using c:\documents and settings which is 
> a key problem because our hard disks are protected by HD Guard.
> 
> In the end I let the kids choose VB2005 or VB6 (with which I am more 
> comfortable anyway, I must admit. Old Fogey alert...)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> MArk
> 

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