[Year 12 IPM] McKinnon is running SoD!

[Mark Kelly]

Woohoo! I've just found out I'm teaching Software Development (SoD) in 
2007 for the first time (never having taught the current study design's 
Information Systems)

I've programmed FORTRAN on a Cyber mainframe, machine code on Z80 and 
6502, C, and BASIC (with a touch of COBOL and Pascal) since 1978 but 
it's still a bit scary having to try to explain to students how to do 
something that has been intuitive and just a hobby for so long.

Like, I *KNOW* what FIFO stacks and indirect pointers are, but the scary 
challenge is trying to explain them to wide-eyed neophytes. I guess 
that's what makes teaching such a challenge.

Thinks: I hope I don't need to know encapsulation and inheritance - I 
ossified before OOP got popular.

Expect the IT Lecture Notes site to expand quite a lot: that's where I 
consolidate my own understanding by trying to explain it to others.

It's going to be a busy summer!

Mark

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Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
IT Lecture notes: http://vceit.com