Perhaps some guidance on languages for Unit 2 IT would be useful. <br><br>The new study design (p.26) says there is no approved language list, but perhaps some recommendations would be valuable for teachers?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Christophersen, Paula P <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christophersen.paula.p@edumail.vic.gov.au">christophersen.paula.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">It’s that time of year when we need to review the list
of programming languages that can be studied by students in Software
development. Currently there is a wide choice of languages, and they include; </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Delphi</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">VisualBasic (not Visual Basic for Applications)/REALbasic</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="PT-BR">VisualBasic.NET </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="PT-BR">Visual C++</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="PT-BR">Visual C# </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES-TRAD">Visual FoxPro</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Pascal (object-oriented variations only)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="ES-TRAD">Visual J, Visual J#, Java </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="PT-BR">Perl</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PHP </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Python</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ruby </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">If you have any suggestions regarding the deletion or
addition of languages, please share your views or contact me directly. You
could also include a brief rationale to support your suggestion. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Regards</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Paula</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Paula Christophersen</span></font></p>
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