[Year 12 SofDev] Should I teach lists?

[Baas, Benjamin B]

Surely if you teach students about List in a different context to their SAT and have them apply those skills to that SAT that won't be undue assistance. The issue is as others have pointed out, if the students answer an array based question on the exam with a list then they will get zero marks for it as lists aren't on the study design.

Cheers,

Ben.
-Alkira Secondary College

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I contemplated the same. I have told my students that arrays are functionally limited in most cases, particularly reading data from xml documents. I have used them only in the context of Outcome 1 but will show them a more appropriate data structure when the time comes.
I don't see how this can be providing undue assistance when the content is not examinable or assessable. Could be wrong though!
On 7 Mar 2016, at 5:48 PM, ATKINSON-BUCK, Damien <Damien.ATKINSON-BUCK at ivanhoe.com.au<mailto:Damien.ATKINSON-BUCK at ivanhoe.com.au>> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm contemplating whether on not I should teach my students about Lists in C# and VB as they will be of more use to them then Arrays when doing their SAT (List are dynamic and have more functionality). I just wanted to know what peoples thoughts are on this and if they go beyond the data collections mentioned in the study design. The SD just mentions Arrays and Records.

Cheers,

Ben.

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