[Year 12 SofDev] Programming Languages

[Mark]

Hi Lorraine

The short answer, I believe, is 'no'. Javascript would not qualify.

The SD programming language requirements
<http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/computing/SofDevProgrammingRequirements.docx>
says,
in part, that an acceptable language should be able to:

*- develop a graphical user interface (GUI), for use in digital systems
such as laptops, gaming consoles, mobile phones, tablets, robots.*

*Does Javascript have a GUI?*

*- construct and use data structures*
*- design and apply data validation techniques*
*- use program control structures: selection, iteration and sequencing*
*- **use modularisation and code optimisation*
*- **use objects, methods and event-driven programming functions.*

*Does Javascript have event-driven functions?*

*- **design, construct and use external storage and access technologies*
*- **retrieve data from external sources.*

*Can Javascript access external data?*

If you can't say 'yes' to all three questions, I'm afraid Javascript is not
the droid you're looking for.
Or I may be completely mistaken.
One or the other.

More-clever people may interject starting ... now.

Regards,
Mark

On 2 June 2016 at 15:57, Lorraine Bignell <lbignell at netspace.net.au> wrote:

>  Hi
>
> Thanks to those who replied to my earlier email (even though I forgot to
> enter a subject).
>
> Over the past few years in Software Development I have taught VIsual Basic
> and C#, have taught some Javascript to a Year 10 class, and have used for
> PHP (and mySQL) for my own programming. My students have said that they
> would like to learn Javascript. I was wanting to know if Javascript is
> suitable for the new Software Development study design as I don't want to
> teach it in Units 1 and 2 and then find that it is not satisfactory for
> Units 3 and 4. Would I be better going back to C# or PHP?
>
> Thanks
>
> Lorraine Bignell
> Kingswood College
>
>
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> Hi
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> I am not teaching Software Development this year but am thinking about
> what language to teach in Unit 2 Computing. Would Javascript be suitable?
> What languages are people using in Units 3 and 4?
>
> Thanks
>
> Lorraine Bignell
> Kingswood College
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