[Year 12 SofDev] SD U3O2 - Van Gogo

[Ken Tonkin]

Yes, Mark  RE VB 2005 troubles on WindowsXP...

I have had similar hassles at our school(ACK) BUT,
We have a work around ... messy but works. 
Basically we give the kids full access to the local machine as local
administrator when using a special time restricted account. 
VB 2005 has all these permission and trust issues which the kids can't
normally get around when running anything remotely sophisticated under
Windows XP. 
Their home drives have network restrictions which make it very difficult
to do anything in VB2005...
Ken Tonkin

-----Original Message-----
From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
Sent: Monday, 14 May 2007 8:46 AM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] SD U3O2 - Van Gogo

Hi all

After much dillydallying I finally decided on an outcome for U3O2, which

is attached.

The problem was coming up with a module that kids couldn't Google and 
download within 2 minutes.

Inspired by the study design's advice for teachers, here is Van Gogo: 
Painter Extraordinaire.  The pix are linked to the Word doc.

It's not _too_ demanding on the kids who still can't get an IF..ENDIF 
working without a mental hernia, but the gun programmers should still be

able to strut their stuff.

Criticism will be welcome.

On a sidenote, I've been having endless troubles running VB 2005 Express

on the network.  It insists on using c:\documents and settings which is 
a key problem because our hard disks are protected by HD Guard.

In the end I let the kids choose VB2005 or VB6 (with which I am more 
comfortable anyway, I must admit. Old Fogey alert...)

Cheers

MArk

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