[Year 12 SofDev] Updated version

[Andrew Shortell]

just remember though that NT postcodes start with 0   e.g.0800



Andrew Shortell
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> On 24 Mar 2017, at 3:22 pm, Phillip Donald <milsendonaldp at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Vera Cook <vcook at mscw.vic.edu.au <mailto:vcook at mscw.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
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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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> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Darren Scott
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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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> Darren Scott
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> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Vera Cook
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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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