Gamemaker is appropriate for year 11 Info Tech (as far as I last heard). At the code level, it uses a language to Action Script used by Flash that you may already be familiar with. There are even some Beta programs that can create Flash objects from GameMaker files and you can extend it to do most things covered by the bigger packages.
<br><br>I generally try to keep programming at this level fun and engaging before they jump into IT Apps. VITTA have a swag of different courses including VB that you can check out on their website. We are just working out some dates for the next set of GameMaker courses :-)
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Eddie</b> <<a href="mailto:deddie@sjcmda.vic.edu.au">deddie@sjcmda.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all<br><br>Can anyone direct me to a comprehensive list of the programming languages listed as appropriate for this outcome. Given my client base, I would love to use Gamemaker, but I am presuming that it is not appropriate. Looks like VB instead. Can anyone help?
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