[Year 12 SofDev] PCs and MAC

[Benjamin Ratcliffe]

Hi Litsa,

From my experience, it comes down to the availability for your chosen language/development environment and it’s availability/portability on the two platforms.

I wanted to ensure all students had access, but in the end I decided to keep with the school’s standard: Visual Basic / Visual Studio / Windows.

I made it clear from the outset that students who did not have access to a Windows PC would need to plan accordingly, e.g., using the school’s computer labs, a home PC or set up their Apple Macs to also run Windows.

The other option is to choose a language/development environment that works on both platforms, although it is always a risk switching code between two OSs, so I would be suggesting student pick one and stick with it, but it could make marking and review harder for you.

Happy to discuss further: Benjamin.ratcliffe at yvg.vic.edu.au<mailto:Benjamin.ratcliffe at yvg.vic.edu.au>

Regards,

Ben

Benjamin Ratcliffe
Year 11 Tutor | Co-House Coordinator - Plummer | Teacher - Media and Digital Technologies

 From: sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> on behalf of Litsa Tzelepis <htzelepis at msj.vic.edu.au>
Reply-To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
Date: Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 12:51
To: "sofdev at edulists.com.au" <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] PCs and MAC

Hello.
Just a quick question I hope.

My IT lab has PCs but my students have Mac laptops.

I have commenced our headstart program last year using the PCs. Are my students going to have problems working between the 2 OSs? I should know this but I’m new to this. Previously we are all Windows.

Thank you kindly in advance.

Litsa :-)


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