[Year 12 SofDev] SD - consultation version

[Adrian Janson]

Hi everyone,

I have attached v2 of my spreadsheet - tonight I went through the Glossary!
So I thought I would write out some of my thoughts and would be very
interested to hear what others think! These are in no particular order -
and also - it is highly possible that I may say something has been removed
or added and it is in fact somewhere else (please let me know!). I feel
like a lot has come out - and not much has been added. I felt that the
2016-2019 SD study design did this as well (removed material but did really
add much). It doesn't feel like there is enough.

*Glossary*
The terms relevant for SD has been expanded from 13 to 21! I feel that
there is a massive amount of redundancy in these terms and definitions -
PLUS - I feel it is a rabbit warren that can easily trap teachers. I found
myself thinking "why can't the whole course be laid out in the AOS, KK and
KS?". Having been on Study Design panels before, I know that Glossary terms
can be helpful to define the scope of what can be very broad concepts - but
- by the same token, if you are a teacher trying to construct a course
based on this study (as currently shown), you will be constantly flicking
back and forth between KK points and the Glossary and could miss things out.

Here are a few specific things I noticed:
'Data structures' mentions stacks, queues and linked lists yet these are
not mentioned anywhere in the Study Design!
The definition of Design Thinking expands on the ways that design ideas can
be generated.
Spam Act and Health Records Act are not in SD but are mentioned in the
Legal Requirements def. (confusing, but previous study did this too).
Terms are listed here that feel redundant - like 'project management',
'managing files', 'naming conventions', 'testing techniques' and
'validation'. They seem to just repeat what is in existing KK points.
A 'Psuedocode' term has been added that lists some conventions - which
means that teachers will need to use these!

*AOS3.1*
+ plain text and CSV files
+ classes
The wording has been changed from 'techniques for linear and binary
searching' to 'algorithms for...' - which makes me wonder if this implies
that students will need to memorise algorithms for these as opposed to
(merely) understanding the process?

*AOS3.2*
+ agile, waterfall and spiral - new development technique
+ critical path added to PM - which is an easy (and logical) addition
- styles of modern application architecture

*AOS4.1*
Selection and quick sort are still there, but removed is the part which
mentions selecting them based on purpose and comparing them in terms of
complexity and sort time. Strange to me - as you would need to be
mentioning these in teaching these sorts anyway!

*AOS4.2*
(this is where you need to queue up that Jurassic Park clip of Samuel L
Jackson as he turns off the main power....)
Information systems are mostly gone. There are small mentions of goals and
objectives, but it isn't clear.
Characteristics of data (accuracy, timeliness, reasonableness,
authenticity, correctness) - gone
- Spam Act
- conflict, data integrity, data mining, adv / disadv for stakeholders
+ security strategies, risk management
- networks, VPNs, technical underpinnings - all gone
- types and causes of threats
+ virtual testing environments, exploits, ways to protect from these
threats (and others)

Cheers,
Adrian
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