[Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Thu Oct 15 21:24:05 AEDT 2015

Hi Adrian and Chris

I am not writing an Informatics text so I am not sure how that one came about J

Quite busy with many other projects at the moment ……….

An interesting point is made nonetheless about a combined text although I am not sure how well it would cover the depth required for each.

Take Care

Kevork Krozian

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Adrian Janson
Sent: Wednesday, 14 October 2015 8:15 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Hi Chris,

I had thought that Kevork was writing an Informatics text? (Sorry Kevork if I am misquoting you!!) I would be happy to work on something that combines both SD and Informatics - maybe for the next edition? - but if there is one on the way, that would be far better!

Cheers,

Adrian

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Paragreen, Chris J <paragreen.chris.j at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

Just a stray thought ….

Is one solution to have one textbook for VCE IT that covers both Informatics and Software Development? There is a degree of overlap between the studies, and could be likened to Further Maths core and modules ….

Chris

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Darren Scott
Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2015 3:23 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>

Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Yep, thanks again to Adrian … though looking at the trends in numbers there could be a day when Sof Dev (1290 in 2014) overlaps IT Apps/Informatics (2500). We’re only running SD in the near future (decision from our school’s curriculum people). For those who don’t want to trawl through the enrolment numbers, http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/expertise/it-crowd-shrinking-as-vce-enrolments-plummet-20140907-10dizx.html is an old (2014) news story that has a nice interactive graph down the bottom that you can get an idea of enrolments from. Perhaps Adrian’s time machine is telling him something of the future? J

As an obligatory “take this to another subject”, for those teaching Further Maths as well – when you get to transforming data in the Core stats unit, the IPM/IT Apps numbers over the last 10-15 years produce an excellent model of a third-quadrant transformation for a test or SAC. We used the numbers to make a SAC a couple of years ago - we renamed the subject as VCE Basket Weaving, taught by Mrs Hugo, to protect the identity of the subject. As a trade-off for Computing people, the networks chapter in any Further book is great for examples to turn into Gantt charts (FM does PERT/CPM charts which you can steal and convert).

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Adrian Janson
Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2015 2:21 PM
To: Edulists - Year 12 Software Development
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Hi Michael,

Yes - 100% market share is good, but having said that - it's still a close thing! That's why none of the publishers will produce a text for a small subject like SD. 

Cheers,

Adrian

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From: pikep at bmg.vic.edu.au
To: sofdev at edulists.com.au
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 02:59:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Thanks goodness for Adrian. 

That’s the problem with having a small cohort.

Philip Pike
Director of ICT

Bacchus Marsh Grammar
T. 03 5366 4893  F. 03 5366 4850  
E. pikep at bmg.vic.edu.au  W. http://www.bmg.vic.edu.au
South Maddingley Road | PO Box 214 | Bacchus Marsh Victoria 3340

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Cooper, Michael J
Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2015 1:51 PM
To: sofdev at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Hi all,

I haven’t seen this mentioned on the list, I just received confirmation from Cengage Learning that Nelson will not be publishing a SD textbook for the new study design. We currently use their IT:A text for year 11 and 12, but are moving to SD next year.  

They recommended Adrian’s book as the only text being published in this subject.

How does 100% market share sound?

Michael Cooper
ICT Co-ordinator & Network Support

www.braybrooksc.vic.edu.au 

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