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<div>My only thought so far is that there is a small section in the text book about PHP and ASP being used to make web pages dynamic…</div>
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<div>I am glad that I am not marking the exam this year!</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com">mark@vceit.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Year List <<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, 6 November 2013 6:45 pm<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Year List <<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam - B10b (i)<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm now feeling that the examiners did really expect kids to say, basically, "Type the price into a web page editor with a QWERTY keyboard, save the HTML file, and upload it to the web server with FTP."
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<div>Hi all. I'm nearing the end of the post mortem, but this is turning into one of the dodgiest ITA exams I've seen in some time. </div>
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<div>Take this delight hiding in section B, Q10b part (i)...</div>
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"i.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Describe how the manager can identify and display on a web page the cheapest fruit available."<br clear="all">
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<div>I'd like you all to pause for a moment and plan an answer to that in your heads. I'll wait. </div>
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<div>Finished? Are you sure? </div>
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<div>"Yes, a quick =MIN(C2:C5) formula," you say.</div>
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<div>But have you noticed the words "<b>and display on a web page</b>"?</div>
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<div>Try answering it <b>now</b>. </div>
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<div>Assuming that someone doesn't just <b>look</b> at the price onscreen and <b>
type</b> it into a webpage manually with a webpage editor, do the examiners want kids to explain some ColdFusion, DDE link, SQL, or PHP code to magically extract a value from a spreadsheet/database and inject it into a dynamic web page?</div>
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<div>And even if we <b>did</b> just use the MIN function, it would only display the
<b>value</b> of the lowest price, not the <b>name</b> of the cheapest fruit... that's an achievable, but very different kettle of fish.<br>
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<div>And it's worth all of <b>2 marks</b>!<br>
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<div>Beyond belief. </div>
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<div>I'm dying to see what the examiner's report gives as a model answer...</div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 255); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="1">Day 19, I have successfully conditioned my master to smile and write in his book every time I drool.- Pavlov's Dog</font></span><br>
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<div>Mark Kelly</div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 255);"><font size="1">Day 19, I have successfully conditioned my master to smile and write in his book every time I drool.- Pavlov's Dog</font></span><br>
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