[Year 12 IPM] McKinnon is running SoD!

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Congratulations Mark. I got some nibbles for SoD but ended up steering them
into the other IT course to make numbers.

Enjoy and well done! :-)

Regards Roland

On 14/10/06, Mark Kelly <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
>
> Mark Kelly
> Manager - Information Systems
> McKinnon Secondary College
> IT Lecture notes: http://vceit.com
>
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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