[Year 12 SofDev] Interface requirements for SAC or SAT

[Andrew Shortell]

hey Scott

my take on this has been that it is to be a solution

clients will want a solution with an interface that they can use

that is partly why I have stayed with Visual Studio from Microsloth (Hat tip to Mike Brookes)

the interface is there, usable, 

I also send the students to usability.gov  and make them rate their interface based on some of the parameters therein.

IF ALL of your students can make a usable solution for a real client without any interface and YOU can justify to the client that although the solution is for the client that the client cannot actually interface with the solution then you might have ticked the boxes.

As a sessional lecturer at RMIT I taught about user interfaces to third year students for two years. I have always wanted an interface so that the solution can be visibly demonstrated 

The basic functional things I ask the students to meet for the SAT are 

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If they do not show all seven then it is hard to get a good mark
It is difficult to show without a decent interface.

Andrew Shortell
At: - unemployed in 2021


> On 20 Feb 2021, at 1:14 pm, McCleary Scott <McCS at jpc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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> Hi there community,
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> I'm going to ask what might seem like a stupid question, but are the students required to create an interface (GUI) for either the SAC or SAT?
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> Bear with me.
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> The SD Programming Requirements document "mandates programming requirements that students are to use when developing working modules and purpose-designed solutions. Schools must use these requirements as the basis of choosing a programming language for study".
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> In there it says, Interface, Logic and Data Source layers. Ok fine, choose a language that can do those things.
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> The document also says, "For assessment purposes, students must be familiar with all of the listed programming requirements; however, not all requirements must be addressed in each task. Teachers are expected to select the appropriate requirements based on the key skills outlined in the study design."
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> Stay with me.
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> The study design does not list any reference to "interface" under any of the Key Skills for any of the Outcomes for Unit 3 or Unit 4.  Nor does the SBA document for the SAT list "interface" through any of the requirements.
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> Am I misinterpreting, reading into it too much, or just not seeing the implied requirement?  From how I read it, even moving from one document to the other, I don't see a reference where a student has to, or is required to create a GUI even though their chosen programming language must support it.
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> Your thoughts on this would be great.
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> Thanks
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> Scott McCleary
> Turner Middle House Coordinator
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