[Year 12 SofDev] Updated version

[Phillip Donald]

Integers are great if the postcode is for Australia, it enforces validation
right from the data type. As soon as you go international though, postcode
should be a string. I think if you added in a sentence about this being
Australia only you could get away with it, especially as it provides a good
chance for them to do some data validation.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Vera Cook <vcook at mscw.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Thankyou Darren,
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> I was going to add file access but as I only have 1 week left of the term
> I decided to do it later, with a joint class Informatics/software I have
> been pushed for time. I probably should have used postcode as an integer
> and am hoping some of my students pick up on that and I will have to fi
> point 4 and in task 8 it is supposed to indicate making a tic tac toe game
> it was a good visual design that I found.
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> Thankyou very much for the feedback
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> I also decided to give them a choice of either 6 or 7 and either 8 or 9 as
> they give me variety.
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> Vera
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> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces@
> edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Darren Scott
> *Sent:* Friday, 24 March 2017 12:08 PM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <
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> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Updated version
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> Hey Vera, I just had a quick look over and thought the following … feel
> free to add or ignore.
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>    - I’ve seen a few people mention that sorting isn’t in U3O1
>    specifically, but there’s no reason you can’t do it as an algorithm,
>    so I did sorting in U3O1 anyway … to me, it makes no sense to binary
>    search if you haven’t covered sorting first/as well.
>    - Are you doing any file access stuff? XML file formats is a key
>    knowledge so I’d recommend putting in something that reads from/writes
>    to a file.
>    - In task 1 you have postcode as an integer … why not a string? You’re
>    never going to do any maths on a postcode.
>    - Task 5 refers to task 1 in the form, but your swapping question is
>    task 2.
>    - I don’t know what you want the kids to do in task 8 … are they
>    making tic-tac-toe? Or just a subpart of the game where the board is
>    already 6 pieces in?
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> How long were you giving for this?
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> Darren
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> Darren Scott
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> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces@
> edulists.com.au <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au>] *On Behalf Of *Vera Cook
> *Sent:* Friday, March 24, 2017 8:33 AM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <
> sofdev at edulists.com.au>
> *Subject:* [Year 12 SofDev] Updated version
> *Importance:* High
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> Hi everyone,
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> If anyone has a chance could you please have  a quick look, have I missed
> a major point or is it too long or both..
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> Thankyou Vera
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