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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Not familiar with the text you’re planning on using, surprised that a text book aimed at secondary school is directly relevant to app development?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Nonetheless we used App Inventor by MIT this year, which has a drag and drop interface and a phone emulator, takes a small amount of set up and deployment of an AIstarter script but it’s a pretty cool way to
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[mailto:yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alexakos, Zach Z<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 12 November 2014 2:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List; yr7-10it@edulists.com.au; itapps@edulists.com.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Year 10 App Development Subject 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">It's new from Apple and I'm going to be busy over the holidays re-writing, and creating new ideas for the Xcode course here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Cameron Ross <<a href="mailto:C.Ross@balcombegrammar.vic.edu.au">C.Ross@balcombegrammar.vic.edu.au</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:yr11it@edulists.com.au">yr11it@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 12 November 2014 1:07 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:yr11it@edulists.com.au">yr11it@edulists.com.au</a>" <<a href="mailto:yr11it@edulists.com.au">yr11it@edulists.com.au</a>>, "<a href="mailto:yr7-10it@edulists.com.au">yr7-10it@edulists.com.au</a>" <<a href="mailto:yr7-10it@edulists.com.au">yr7-10it@edulists.com.au</a>>,
"<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>" <<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Yr11 Information Technology] Year 10 App Development Subject 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">Sorry for the cross posts.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">I have just been advised that I will be teaching an App Development elective subject for Year 10 next year and was wondering if anyone had a subject outline
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">The textbook I will be using is Programming Apps for the Iphone by Graeme Summers.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks in advance.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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