[Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

[Darren Scott]

It's an interesting thought, but from a non-expert point of view there's a fair bit of potential peril (putting on the black De Bono hat here ... ).
The Further course is a single course with options, which the school chooses to teach but the student chooses for the exam. I'm sure everyone here who's taught subjects with an option (like IT Apps' database/spreadsheet choice) has had that one kid who decided to teach themselves the other one and do that on the exam instead. They don't have that option in the SD/Apps choice as they're two subjects - if somewhere in the distant future they merged into one, with a programming/SD module and an Apps module, it might work.

It would also be harder to convince the parents to fork out an extra 50% on parts of a book that the student doesn't need. Parents are already dirty when the teacher doesn't use every square inch of the textbook including the front and back cover.

The idea works great for websites (like our other SD bible, Mark Kelly's vceit.com), so that flows into the other philosophical question - when are we doing away with textbooks completely and going strictly online?

Darren

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Paragreen, Chris J
Sent: Friday, 9 October 2015 10:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Just a stray thought ....

Is one solution to have one textbook for VCE IT that covers both Informatics and Software Development? There is a degree of overlap between the studies, and could be likened to Further Maths core and modules ....

Chris

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Darren Scott
Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2015 3:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Yep, thanks again to Adrian ... though looking at the trends in numbers there could be a day when Sof Dev (1290 in 2014) overlaps IT Apps/Informatics (2500). We're only running SD in the near future (decision from our school's curriculum people). For those who don't want to trawl through the enrolment numbers, http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/expertise/it-crowd-shrinking-as-vce-enrolments-plummet-20140907-10dizx.html is an old (2014) news story that has a nice interactive graph down the bottom that you can get an idea of enrolments from. Perhaps Adrian's time machine is telling him something of the future? :)

As an obligatory "take this to another subject", for those teaching Further Maths as well - when you get to transforming data in the Core stats unit, the IPM/IT Apps numbers over the last 10-15 years produce an excellent model of a third-quadrant transformation for a test or SAC. We used the numbers to make a SAC a couple of years ago - we renamed the subject as VCE Basket Weaving, taught by Mrs Hugo, to protect the identity of the subject. As a trade-off for Computing people, the networks chapter in any Further book is great for examples to turn into Gantt charts (FM does PERT/CPM charts which you can steal and convert).

Darren Scott
Catholic College Bendigo


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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Adrian Janson
Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2015 2:21 PM
To: Edulists - Year 12 Software Development
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Hi Michael,

Yes - 100% market share is good, but having said that - it's still a close thing! That's why none of the publishers will produce a text for a small subject like SD.

Cheers,
Adrian
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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 02:59:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD
Thanks goodness for Adrian.
That's the problem with having a small cohort.




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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Cooper, Michael J
Sent: Thursday, 8 October 2015 1:51 PM
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

Hi all,

I haven't seen this mentioned on the list, I just received confirmation from Cengage Learning that Nelson will not be publishing a SD textbook for the new study design. We currently use their IT:A text for year 11 and 12, but are moving to SD next year.

They recommended Adrian's book as the only text being published in this subject.

How does 100% market share sound?

Michael Cooper
ICT Co-ordinator & Network Support

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