[Year 12 SofDev] RE: sofdev Digest, Vol 38, Issue 10

[Mark Kelly]

Approved programming languages and necessary programming skills (adapted 
from VCE Bulletin #38, June 2006)

The bulletin specifies that:

"In the development of this software, students should be able to:
• develop a graphical user interface (GUI), for use in portable 
computing devices, such as laptops, personal digital assistants, gaming 
consoles, mobile phones
• construct and use data structures, for example arrays, strings, sets, 
lists, tables, records and stacks
• design, construct and use fi les to store and retrieve data
• design and apply data-validation techniques
• use program control structures: selection, iteration and sequencing.
The purpose-designed software will entail the use of objects, methods 
and their properties, and event-driven
programming."

Approved languages

     * Delphi
     * Visual Basic (not Visual Basic for Applications)
     * REALbasic
     * Visual Basic.NET
     * Visual C++ , Visual C#
     * Visual Fox Pro
     * Pascal (object-oriented variations only)
     * Visual J, Visual J#
     * Java
     * Perl
     * PHP
     * Python
     * Ruby

The bulletin adds, "Additional languages can be used to embellish a 
product, for example Javascript with webpages. However, these would be 
supplementary to the main language and not replace it."

Also: "Specific distributions, projects or variations of languages may 
be suitable as long as they are able to address the criteria listed 
above..."  Read the bulletin for more details.


Ogilvie, Ross A wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm proposing to do something similar to Andrew. A question I have regarding programming with Visual Basic is what sort of standard is required. For example, would most of the examples in Graeme Summers suffice?
> I'm just a bit wary of ovderdoing/underdoing it.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ross Ogilvie
> LSF ICT Leader
> Sunbury College
> 30 Racecourse Rd, Sunbury 3429
> Ph (W) 9744 1066
>    (H) 54272843
> Bookmarks:  http://del.icio.us/Ross1956
> Wiki: http://ross1956.wikispaces.com/


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