[Yr11 Information Technology] Re: Unit 2 Outcome 1:Programming

[Steven Bird]

>  Our students do Flash in Yr 9,  VB.NET in Yr 10, PHP and MySQL in Yr
> 12 so I am thinking I might go with either :
>
>    1. Basic PHP/MySQL or
>    2. VBA behind Access or Excel or
>    3. ASP in web pages or
>    4. java  or
>    5. javascript or
>    6. python

As I've mentioned previously on this list, we've chosen Python in our
new first year IT subjects at Melbourne University.  Sydney Uni also
teaches Python in its first year IT curriculum.

More detail on our new first year informatics subjects is available here:
  http://www.informatics.unimelb.edu.au/


Steven Bird
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/