[Year 12 SofDev] Programming languages - unity????

Mon Mar 21 15:40:50 AEDT 2016

Hi Katherine

I'd be a bit nervous about producing a game. It could hardly be called a
'need', which only leaves an 'opportunity' which could arguably apply.

I know nothing about Unity itself, but it does not seem to be much of a
classical language. And SD really loves classical languages.

A certain Mr W. Pedia says it has no flow control, and VCAA's requirements
of an SD programming language
<http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/computing/SofDevProgrammingRequirements.docx>
include
the need for *control structures for selection, iteration, sequencing.*

Apart from that, I'd be asking: will experience of Unity help to prepare my
kids for 50% of the year's assessment in the exam?
Some sample Unity code I've found really does not resemble exam pseudocode
syntax at all.

Cheers
Mark

On 21 March 2016 at 12:37, Young, Katherine A <
young.katherine.a at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering if any of you have students who want to Unity (to make a
> game) for the SAT?
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> Does anyone anticipate any problems in meeting criteria with software
> developed in Unity?
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> Thank you in anticipation :D
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