[Year 12 SofDev] Students struggling with SAT ideas

[Andrew Shortell]

Hi All
Just to follow on from some of the GREAT stuff here

I ask my students to ensure their SAT can

Add, Edit, Delete, Save, Load, Sort, Search  — the 7 absolute requirements. 

 We will use a drop in quick sort - i.e. the quick-sort we went over as a group and we all know works (developed in class but relying on other sources as well

Then I use that as a filter on their ideas - can they justify their chosen topic to fit these minimum requirements?

Mine are still in analysis and SRS and GAntt stage - but some are ready to start their DFDs, Use Case, Screen Designs, screen design criteria, usability (usability.gov <http://usability.gov/>), reading level, audience description, and (maybe soon) pseudo-code, data dictionaries, testing tables, 

Luckily I had done a fair bit of theory in term 1 so we have been SAT focussed this term.

The thing I have not covered is  <xml>   files and reading them into a program.  
I understand what to do intellectually but am struggling with collections of instances of a class that will be a collection of records (as in database). Stuff online tends to just interact with a database but None of my students have done Informatics/data analysis so I dont want to burden them with learning database as well

Maybe someone can point me to a good resource for that?  Please?

Andrew

Sunbury College for 2020
SofDev, VET CDM & unit 1,2 Computing


> On 28 Apr 2020, at 11:54 am, McCleary Scott <McCS at jpc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has posted or emailed.  I really appreciate the ideas and support.  It’s all helpful.  Hard enough doing the subject for the first time, a little harder by distance when you don’t feel you’re giving your students what they need.
>  
> Cheers everyone,
>  
> Scott
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> Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Students struggling with SAT ideas
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> Hi everyone,
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> I have a few students that seem to have stalled in coming up with ideas for their SAT (yes, it’s getting a bit late, they’re lucky VCAA pushed dates back).
>  
> I was curious as to what topics or ideas some of your students had.  I was hoping to compile a bit of a list that I could use with them to give them a push along.  My brain also is limited as it’s my first year teaching SD.  Give me Informatics (Data Analytics) which I have done for several years and I would have no problem.
>  
> Any ideas that I could use to help push my students along would be great.
>  
> Thanks for helping the newb SD teacher.
>  
> P.S. I’ll likely be back here asking other questions about the SAT
>  
> Scott McCleary
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