[Year 12 SofDev] SD - consultation version - legislation

[Heath, Natalie]

Spam Act is only in unit 2 (such a shame – it was great to work in Month Python sketches… none of my students EVER missed an exam mark where spam was concerned!!)
Health Records Act in unit 2 and Informatics only
Copyright Act is only unit and SD, but intellectual property is in a KK point for Data Analytics – I think this needs to either explicitly reference the relevant legislation or be removed to avoid confusion.

Still burrowing…

Natalie


From: sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> On Behalf Of Adrian Janson
Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2018 10:40 PM
To: Edulists - Year 12 Software Development <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] SD - consultation version

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


Natalie Heath
Marcellin Staff

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