[Year 12 SofDev] Sensorlight programming practice exercise

Fri May 13 20:08:17 EST 2011

The Tkinter GUI is included with python and certainly fulfils all the requirements. I picked python after talking to past students that have gone on to do IT at uni. They suggested knowing python is somewhat useful in their courses although C would be better.

I have attached a dodgy Tkinter version of the cattle profit calculator.
Cheers,
Heath

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 10:42 AM
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Thanks, Heath.  The more cattle programming we get, the better :-)

And with using Python in SD, how do you clear the VCAA GUI hurdle?

On 13 May 2011 10:03, Matheson, Heath A <Matheson.Heath.A at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:Matheson.Heath.A at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
The thoughts of posting cattle across the country inspired this little exercise based the current situation up north.
I'll add it to the wiki when I get a chance.
My basic python solution is included.

Cheers,
Heath

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Hi Mark,

Yes, it should pass. I just uploaded a sample image into the Playground wiki  which can be found under Eduwiki Index on the home page www.edulists.com.au<http://www.edulists.com.au> or directly at http://www.edulists.com.au/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=playground:playground .
The image is a tree diagram describing how data is organised on the Ultranet .... :)
  Thanks for your contributions there Mark !

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Good idea, Mr Special K.  I'm having trouble uploading an image at the moment, but that may pass.
On 10 May 2011 20:43, Kevork Krozian <kevork at edulists.com.au<mailto:kevork at edulists.com.au>> wrote:
Hi Guys,

Why don't we build a wiki based on these types of tasks . We can post freely and add as we wish.
Actually, I just created it at http://www.edulists.com.au/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=programming_tasks
 Easy to join in , once you create an account.

See how we go

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Thursday, 5 May 2011 8:26 PM

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Thanks Heath.

I'd like us to collate a big collection of neat little programming tasks.  We can all chip in.
On 5 May 2011 15:07, Matheson, Heath A <Matheson.Heath.A at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:Matheson.Heath.A at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
A great task Mark,

They got quite a kick out of completing it. Here is a python/Tkinter solution.

Heath

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Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 3:04 PM
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Hi folk.

I'm always on the lookout for small but challenging programming tasks for kids as they start out with SD.  Here's one I made up as I noticed my sensor light turning on at home.  Literally a lightbulb moment  :-)

The functional requirements seem simple, but the algorithm challenged them. The kids spent two periods having fun working on it.

Task, and sample VB2010 Express solution (zipped) are attached - I haven't distributed a VB2010 project before, so Dog only knows if I packaged the right files.
Google won't let me mail .zip files, so you need to rename .zipped as .zip  :-[

Cheers

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