[Year 12 Its] Programming languages - IT 1&2 & Software 3&4

[gordonp at horsham-college.vic.edu.au]

> Having students which aren't that interested in IT doing IT, seems to 
> result in the dumbing down of IT courses. This is not good. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Con Zymaris
> 

Agreed - but they have to do English + 4 subjects in year 12. Many of the 50% (VCE only) struggle to find 4 interesting subjects and perceive IT as a bludge subject because it is on computers. 
I don't wish to talk down our students - we always have a handful of academic students who do extremely well. 
But we cater to a very broad range of kids here ...

             cheers          gordon

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Gordon Poultney