[Year 12 SofDev] We're allowed to discuss the exam

[Kevin Feely]

Hi Kevork,

some feedback

kev


Kevork Krozian wrote:
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>      2. Section B  Q 5 - rather unclear. Was the teacher's job description to develop the admin system and support it or was it done voluntarily over and above the job description ? Depending on the answer to that question , the answer will vary and may be entirely different .
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As an employed teacher all materials you develop within your employment 
or for the school become the property of DEECD (our has the name changed 
again in the last 24 hours?) Unless you specifically hire yourself to 
them as a contractor to develop a program and it is "sold" to the school 
under a commercial agreement
BUT would the kids know this?
>     
>      5. Section B Q 11 --  The PDA would not render a web page with such large fonts. Most if not all market entry level PDAs and mobile phones are smart enough to resize full sized html pages to a smaller size without any effort. They convert html by downsizing.
>      All this leads me to wonder if the mobile device programming task SAC 32  is out of date and out of touch already.  
>
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>   
yep but i think the intention of the question is OK even if it is out of 
date
> Take Care
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> Kevork Krozian
> IT Manager , Forest Hill College
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i will

kev
>>>> "Frank Van Den Boom" <vandenboomfj at aquinas.vic.edu.au> 15/11/2007 3:43 pm >>>
>>>>         
> Overall, I thought it was a good paper. It was refreshing to see some
> different sorts of questions as well as the old predictables.
>
> I was surprised to see the 2D array in the algorithm question, even
> though the approach to the question tried to make its application more
> within reach. Some of you may recall me prompting some discussion
> earlier in the year on my issue with the study design often being a
> guessing game on what to cover or not to cover i.e. level of depth. The
> view on 2D arrays by some at the time was that it was probably out of
> scope. So much for our judgement on that one. I chose not to deal with
> them at all. If the study design was clear about their inclusion, then I
> would have covered them. So how on earth do you know??
>
> Frank
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> Paula says it's OK to start chatting.
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