[Year 12 SofDev] Question Re SAT need/opportunity

[Brett]

Why would you have to include sorting? Surely it would depend on the program requirements, which we don't set and the language & data storage combination. 

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> On 7 Mar 2016, at 2:15 pm, "Paragreen, Chris J" <paragreen.chris.j at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
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> Hi Mary,
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> U4O1 includes “algorithms for sorting”. I’m taking that as students should be including sorting in their project in order to score maximum marks in Criterion 6.
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> Chris
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> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: Monday, 7 March 2016 1:59 PM
> To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Question Re SAT need/opportunity
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> Hi Mary
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> Do you mean the program searches the contents of a PDF?  Decoding a PDF file would be way beyond the scope of an SD SAC, IMO.
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> Or maybe a list of PDF filenames is searched for key words and a matching PDF file is loaded by the OS ... that would be achievable.
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> Otherwise, I'm unsure what the student's requirements are.
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> Cheers
> Mark
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> On 7 March 2016 at 13:32, Mary Ho <homn at aquinas.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi 
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> I'd appreciate any feedback from you amazing teachers out there.
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> I have a student who has a need, this need is to read in a pdf document into his program, once a search has been performed the relevant pdf file will load in and display on screen.  Is this a viable project?  He will also create a form that allows his client to enter data when adding in a new report of incidents..
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> Sorry about the vagueness.  So he will have UI, programming logic, store of new reports and folder containing the pdf documents
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> Thanks in advance
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> Mary
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