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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hope the break has been kind! <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m back teaching a combined 11/12 IT in Action /Application class this year, how I love combined classes…not.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Nonetheless I thought for the programming component of Unit 2 I’d get the students using Code Academy, (I’ve played with it a bit and found it a good introduction) because I have such a huge ability range in
the class direct instruction is basically a waste of time as someone’s needs will always be missed by a country mile and with two subjects at once time is non-existent. So self-paced, giving me the ability to roam and help you’d think would be a good solution.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Alas I have found Code Academy’s shell to be incredibly unreliable and it seems to hang constantly (through VicOne anyway) – anyone else had this issue??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">So to get around the problem I have compiled a set of exercises and resources for PHP, Ruby, JavaScript and Python that don’t require any installation of anything (apart from I suggest Chrome not IE) and give
the opportunity for self-paced work. We are using Blogger as our online record as the college has a Google domain setup so it makes it very easy all round. So if you are struggling with programming work with students and torturing the techs into installing
software for you this list below is for you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hope it’s useful (None of the resources are mine btw this is simply an aggregation targeted at breadth rather than depth)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Ruby</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Please go to <a href="http://tryruby.org/levels/1/challenges/0"><span style="color:#0782C1">http://tryruby.org/levels/1/challenges/0</span></a> Read the
instruction carefully as you must type specific commands to navigate the tutorials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt">
<u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">At the end of each lesson, screen grab the last exercise you got to, upload it to your Blogger and describe what you did.</span></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">PHP</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Go to <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp"><span style="color:#0782C1">http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp </span></a> complete all tutorials
down to <i>Form Handling<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Go to <a href="http://phpexercises.com/php-exercises-beginnings.html"><span style="color:#0782C1">http://phpexercises.com/php-exercises-beginnings.html</span></a> and
complete all exercises <i>Beginnings</i> 1 to 7 and <i>Control Structures</i> 1 to 3 (4 for extension if you wish) and
<i>Forms</i> 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt">
<u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Please screen grab and title each complete exercise and upload to your Blogger.</span></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">This site <a href="https://phpacademy.org/videos/learn-php"><span style="color:#0782C1">https://phpacademy.org/videos/learn-php</span></a> is also a very
useful how-to site all by video if you need further help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">JavaScript</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Go to <a href="https://www.codeschool.com/"><span style="color:#0782C1">https://www.codeschool.com/</span></a> <u>sign in with your Melba Google Domain
account</u> under the courses link locate the <i>JavaScript Roadtrip Part 1</i> and complete all exercises.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt">
<u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">At the end of each lesson, screen grab the last exercise you got to, upload it to your Blogger and describe what you did.</span></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Python</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Go to <a href="http://repl.it/languages/Python"><span style="color:#0782C1">http://repl.it/languages/Python</span></a> Rather than installing Python we
are going to use an online shell for speed and ease. This site is your online shell, this is how you will run your Python code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Go to <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for_Python"><span style="color:#0782C1">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer%27s_Tutorial_for_Python </span></a> and
commence from <i>Hello, World</i> and continue down to <i>Decisions</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.6pt">
<u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Complete each set of Exercises at the bottom of each tutorial section and screen grab and title the corresponding shell output from repl.it. Upload this
to your Blogger each time.</span></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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