[Year 12 SofDev] sofdev Digest, Vol 164, Issue 10

Thu Jan 24 04:21:16 UTC 2019

Greetings Litsa

Depends on how you approach the coding.
Visual Studio runs quite well in macOS
XAMPP the same
Brackets ditto
GanttChart works well on macOS

Screenshots of output (windows-prtscrn/cmd-shift-option-4) can be pasted directly into the student blog or Gantt chart

Visual Basic however does not play nice with macOS
Or FLASH
Or ActiveX

These have simple work around if you know in advance, or just choose something else.

I would recommend PHP for Software Development as an excellent introduction to server side applications. An added feature is the close integration with MySQL.

We regularly have 20% of our students running macOS, otherwise various incantations of winOS. Many on WIN8, occasionally WIN7, in 2018... macOS has a similar spread ElCapitan(10.11), Sierra/HighSierra (10.12/13) and now Mojave(10.14) expect incompatibilities with 32-64 versions of software and potential image format issues.
https://www.techradar.com/au/how-to/macos-1014-mojave-problems-how-to-fix-them

Regards
Gary Bass
Virtual School Victoria
-formerly DECV: Distance Education Centre-Victoria
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Thank-you Benjamin - that sounds very logical and reasonable.
I appreciate you getting back to me - many thanks :-)
Litsa

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:09 PM Benjamin Ratcliffe <
Benjamin.Ratcliffe at yvg.vic.edu.au<mailto:Benjamin.Ratcliffe at yvg.vic.edu.au>> wrote:

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

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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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