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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>My advice is to start doing practical work straight away – as you
have pointed out, the theory in U3O1 is not practically based, so you can
effectively mix the course work with the programming folio quite well in Term
1. That way, when you have finished U3O1, your students will (or should be)
well on their way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 2 December 2007 11:00 AM<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From
my experience, I find including a bit of practical programming from the
beginning helps keep them motivated when the theory starts getting a bit heavy!
No harm in starting early.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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1. When to start VB prac? (Andrew Grimshaw)<br>
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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:21:06 +1000<br>
From: "Andrew Grimshaw" <grimshaw.andrew.j@edumail.vic.gov.au><br>
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] When to start VB prac?<br>
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Hi fellow SD teachers!<br>
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Im teaching SD for first time next year<br>
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Ive been making up a calendar for it based on Kevorks timeline from the
edulists site (thx kevork)<br>
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U301 seems fairly theoretical - i was wondering how many of you started doing
practical exercise on VB (or whatever language u use) earlier than the
commencement of U302?<br>
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My students are starting from a pretty low base as far as programming is
concerned - a couple of high flyers but the rest are basically beginners. I was
thinking of doing a little bit of prac each week from the start of term 1, even
though im going to be doing U301 then<br>
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andrew grimshaw<br>
colac college<br>
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