[Year 12 SofDev] Prog Languages

[Mark]

Any of them using COBOL?

But seriously, learning COBOL would make a student a rare and valuable find
for most banks out there!
Before 2000, banks were dragging greybeard COBOL programmers out of their
retirement home and throwing money at them to fix the impending two-digit
year apocalypse.

On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 11:26, Vera Cook <vcook at mscw.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi I don’t think there is any reason, my kids are using a variety of
> languages.
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> Vera
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> *From:* sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> *On Behalf Of *Victoria
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> I have a number of kids who are keen to do SD but hate Visual Basic. I
> have  a lot of reasons for using VB and intend to keep using it for Units 3
> and 4 even though we do C++, Python and PHP as part of our Year 10 programs.
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> Is there any reason why all the SD students within a class need to all use
> the same programming language for their SAT?
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> Cheers,
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> Vic
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