Congratulations Mark. I got some nibbles for SoD but ended up steering them into the other IT course to make numbers.<br><br>Enjoy and well done! :-)<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/10/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Kelly</b> <<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Woohoo! I've just found out I'm teaching Software Development (SoD) in<br>2007 for the first time (never having taught the current study design's<br>Information Systems)<br><br>I've programmed FORTRAN on a Cyber mainframe, machine code on Z80 and
<br>6502, C, and BASIC (with a touch of COBOL and Pascal) since 1978 but<br>it's still a bit scary having to try to explain to students how to do<br>something that has been intuitive and just a hobby for so long.<br><br>Like, I *KNOW* what FIFO stacks and indirect pointers are, but the scary
<br>challenge is trying to explain them to wide-eyed neophytes. I guess<br>that's what makes teaching such a challenge.<br><br>Thinks: I hope I don't need to know encapsulation and inheritance - I<br>ossified before OOP got popular.
<br><br>Expect the IT Lecture Notes site to expand quite a lot: that's where I<br>consolidate my own understanding by trying to explain it to others.<br><br>It's going to be a busy summer!<br><br>Mark<br><br>--<br><br>Mark Kelly
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