[Year 12 SofDev] Industry practice - tertiary links

[Timmer-Arends]

Hello Steven
Actally I wasn't complaining, just observing. Personally I'm more in favour 
of a CS-oriented course than against

What would you see a foundational course covering? You mention "algorithmic 
problem solving and the associated programming skills" - what sort of 
structure would you give this?

Regards
Robert T-A

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Bird" <sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List" 
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Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Industry practice - tertiary links


> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Timmer-Arends <timmer at melbpc.org.au> 
> wrote:
>> I have to say that this discussion is heading to Comp Sci circa 1990 
>> (which
>>  is not necessarily a bad thing)
>
> Well, CS an obvious source of theory for an IT subject.  The theory on
> which VCE Physics and Chemistry is based is older still, but no-one
> considers that dated.
>
>> but it seems to me that a couple of
>> questions need  to be answered first:
>>  1. what do we want students to get out of a technically-oriented Y12 IT 
>> course?
>>  2. is the course primarily intended to prepare students for teritary, 
>> work, or both?
>
> Another conceivable answer to q2 is that it is foundational study,
> preparing students for whatever they choose to do in future, even if
> it involves no formal IT study or employment.
>
> For the students continuing from VCE Software Development to a degree
> in Software Engineering, we would prefer students to have a solid
> grounding in algorithmic problem solving and the associated
> programming skills.  (The SDLC follows naturally once they're ready to
> scale up.)
>
> -Steven
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