[Year 12 SofDev] Approved programming languages for 2011

[John Schwartz]

Hi all,

Please pardon my ignorance but if we are not to use databases, what is
the difference between a table and a 2D (multidimensional) array?

John

 

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From: Mark KELLY [mailto:kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au] 
Sent: Friday, 25 June 2010 8:30 AM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Approved programming languages for 2011

 

Hi all.  I've just got the latest bulletin.  Here's a rundown of the
approved languages for 2011...


Approved programming languages and necessary programming skills for 2011
(adapted from VCE Bulletin #80, June 2010) 

"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 multidimensional
arrays, strings, sets, lists, tables, 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 software will entail the use of objects, methods
and their properties, and event-driven
programming."

Approved languages

*	Basic (object-oriented variations only e.g. VB.NET)
*	C++
*	C#
*	Objective C 
*	Visual Fox Pro
*	Pascal (object-oriented variations only, e.g. Delphi)
*	Java
*	Perl
*	PHP
*	Python
*	Ruby 

The bulletin also adds, "With all of the above languages, databases are
not to be used to support the construction of solutions."

Note the removal of Real Basic, Visual J and Visual J++, and the
addition of Objective C.  
Also note the emphasis on multidimentional arrays and the specific
exclusion of databases: it's good to get that old argument out of the
way!

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