[Year 12 SofDev] python UI

[Mark]

Hi Victoria.

I suspect your question is dramatically rhetorical, but for the sake of
those who don't know...

For this year, VCAA neatly lists the approved languages
<http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/correspondence/bulletins/2010/June/vce_study.aspx#4>
:

   - Basic (object-oriented variations only, e.g. VB.NET) - including VB6
   still !
   - C++
   - C#
   - Objective-C
   - Pascal (object-oriented variations only, e.g. Delphi)
   - Java
   - Perl
   - PHP
   - Python
   - Ruby

Sadly, neither Scratch nor QuickBASIC 4.5 qualifies  ;-)

But henceforth, for the *new* study design (2016-2019) there is no longer
an approved list of programming languages. There will, however, be a list
of functions of which a chosen language must be capable.

Mark


On 5 August 2015 at 11:48, Victoria Farrell <FarrellV at humegrammar.vic.edu.au
> wrote:

> In SD, students need to create working solutions where the interface is
> required to be user friendly…. So what language are we supposed to use?????
>
>
>
> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Laurie Savage
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 August 2015 11:43 AM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 SofDev] python UI
>
>
>
> That's what I like about it! I'm not sure a GUI approach to language
> learning is always the right way in at this level; although I like the
> Scratch approach to problem solving eventually the students have to dive
> into syntax. I'm very fond of Python, just not very expert at it - there's
> always something else to do at work!
>
> Laurie
>
>
> Laurie Savage
> https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home
>
>
>
> On 5 August 2015 at 09:13, Guy Flaherty <Guy.Flaherty at xavier.vic.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
> There are a bunch of Python Web Frameworks Laurie. Probably the biggest of
> them is Django (http://djangoproject.com/). I am not teaching SD again
> this year but if I were I would look at using something like this and
> JQueryMobile (http://jquerymobile.com/) and get the students building
> mobile apps for their phones.
>
>
>
> Python is not really a GUI focussed language. You can do it, but other
> languages are probably going to be easier to teach and use. Don’t get me
> wrong, I love Python. Been using it for 15 years now, but not for GUI
> programming.
>
>
>
> Good luck,
>
>
>
> Guy Flaherty
>
> Xavier College
>
>
>
> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Laurie Savage
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 August 2015 8:43 AM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <
> sofdev at edulists.com.au>
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 SofDev] python UI
>
>
>
> I haven't cracked using Python as a web tool yet so I'm interested in how
> people go about this. Is there anything like Ruby on Rails? (maybe Python
> on a Swing?)
>
> Laurie
>
>
> Laurie Savage
> https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home
>
>
>
> On 4 August 2015 at 22:41, Andrew Pate <arp at mentonegrammar.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all
> Just wondering through what mechanism those of you using python as your
> language are having students build UI? Is it web or otherwise platform
> independent?
> I have been using PHP for a few years now, and probably will continue, but
> I have a number of students in 9-11 taking the Grok NCSS challenge and
> thought about looking into python as my language. Also, the Algorithmics
> course mandates python, and I would like to offer that, although I know
> that UI is not so important there.
>
> Thanks
> Andrew.
>
> Andrew Pate
> Mentone Grammar
>
>
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Mark Kelly


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