[Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD

[Adrian Janson]

Hi Chris,

I had thought that Kevork was writing an Informatics text? (Sorry Kevork if
I am misquoting you!!) I would be happy to work on something that combines
both SD and Informatics - maybe for the next edition? - but if there is one
on the way, that would be far better!

Cheers,
Adrian

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Paragreen, Chris J <
paragreen.chris.j at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Just a stray thought ….
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> 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 ….
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> Chris
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> *From:* 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
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <
> sofdev at edulists.com.au>
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> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD
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> 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? J
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> 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).
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> Darren Scott
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> Catholic College Bendigo
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> Darren Scott
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> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [
> mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au <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
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> Hi Michael,
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
>
> Adrian
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> From: pikep at bmg.vic.edu.au
> To: sofdev at edulists.com.au
> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 02:59:57 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD
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> Thanks goodness for Adrian.
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> That’s the problem with having a small cohort.
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> *Philip Pike*
> Director of ICT
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> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [
> mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au>] *On
> Behalf Of *Cooper, Michael J
> *Sent:* Thursday, 8 October 2015 1:51 PM
> *To:* sofdev at edulists.com.au
> *Subject:* [Year 12 SofDev] Textbook for SD
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> 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.
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> They recommended Adrian’s book as the only text being published in this
> subject.
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> How does 100% market share sound?
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> Michael Cooper
> ICT Co-ordinator & Network Support
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