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

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Python is also used extensively by Google and NASA. I just read on an
interesting blog post that 15% of MS Vista was written in
Intercal<http://clintonforbes.blogspot.com/search/label/INTERCAL>.
The Wikipedia entry for Intercal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL> is
worth reading for a chuckle.

Regards Roland

On 14/06/07, Mark Kelly <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> And of course Windows Vista is written in Python  :-)
>
> Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> > One of my VCE students won an IT scholarship and returned to school
> > after a January University summer camp with some experience programming
> > in Python and some very good impressions about how easy it was to learn
> > and use. During the camp, her team built a web crawling Internet robot
> > and a computer game then had a quick look at VPython. She had only just
> > cut her teeth on GameMaker in year 10 and again at year 11.
> >
> >  From what I can Google, there are ooodles of resources, tutorials and
> > training videos out there. Free to download and works on Windows and
> > Unix/Linux/MacOSX systems. Would love to learn it myself beyond just
> > typing "hello world". :-)
> >
> > Regards Roland
> >
> > On 13/06/07, *Steven Bird* < sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au
> > <mailto:sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au>> wrote:
> >
> >      >  Our students do Flash in Yr 9,  VB.NET <http://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/
> >     <http://www.informatics.unimelb.edu.au/>
> >
> >
> >     Steven Bird
> >     http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/
> >     <http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/%7Esb/>
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-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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