[Year 12 SofDev] programming languages advice for 2011

[Leanne Wright]

Does this mean that Visual Basic 6 is no longer acceptable. Leanne Wright
 


Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:11:04 +1000
From: iaquinto at ozemail.com.au
To: sofdev at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] programming languages advice for 2011


Folks

To reply to several messages I have just received privately, this advice is from the VCAA website. Kindly note that Paula posted it here but many of you may have been on holiday when it came out.

Some languages have been removed from the list. One exciting addition is Objective-C which is for apps on the iPhone. Additionally, there is advice about database programming. This has been removed from the 2011 study design. All languages must be Object-Oriented.

Perhaps Adrian or someone from VITTA will post some news about 'Gearing up for SD in 2011' to inform us of the changes to the Study Design. 

Kevork recently posted info about the use of C# with respect to Study Design 2011. Several teachers attended that workshop. 

Maggie
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Approved programming languages for the accredited study in 2011 
Students will use one programming language from the accompanying list, to develop purpose-designed solutions. In the development of solutions, students should be able to:


develop a graphical user interface (GUI), for use in mobile computing devices, such as laptops, personal digital assistants, gaming consoles, mobile phones
construct and use data structures, for example multi-dimensional arrays, records, queues and stacks
design, construct and use files (not databases) to store and retrieve data
design and apply data validation techniques
use program control structures: selection, iteration and sequencing.
The purpose-designed solutions will entail the use of objects, methods and their properties, and event-driven programming.

List of approved languages
Basic (object-oriented variations only, e.g. VB.NET)
C++
C#
Objective-C
Pascal (object-oriented variations only, e.g. Delphi)
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

With all of the above languages, databases are not to be used to support the construction of solutions. Students should be able to demonstrate the highest level of achievement using only the selected programming language. Additional languages can be used to embellish a solution, for example JavaScript with web pages; however, these would be supplementary to the main language and not replace it.

Specific distributions, projects or variations of languages may be suitable as long as they are able to address the criteria listed above, including, but not limited to, an object-oriented programming capability with graphical user interface features and file handling. Since it is impractical to itemise each of these language variations, the VCAA recommends teachers firstly consider a language from the approved list.

Teachers of VCE Software Development should note that the list of approved programming languages is revised each year and is published annually in the VCAA Bulletin VCE, VCAL and VET.


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