[Year 12 SofDev] SD approved programming languages for 2009

[Mark Kelly]

VCAA bulletin #64, page 10.

Relax. The list of required skills and the list of approved languages 
for 2009 has not changed - same as it was in 2006.

In short:

Students should be able to:

• develop a graphical user interface (GUI), for use in portable 
computing devices, such as laptops, personal digital assistants, gaming 
consoles, mobile phones
• construct and use data structures, for example arrays, strings, sets, 
lists, tables, records and stacks
• design, construct and use fi les to store and retrieve data
• design and apply data-validation techniques
• use program control structures: selection, iteration and sequencing.

The purpose-designed software will entail the use of objects, methods 
and their properties, and event-driven programming."

Approved languages

     * Delphi
     * Visual Basic (not Visual Basic for Applications)
     * REALbasic
     * Visual Basic.NET
     * Visual C++ , Visual C#
     * Visual Fox Pro
     * Pascal (object-oriented variations only)
     * Visual J, Visual J#
     * Java
     * Perl
     * PHP
     * Python
     * Ruby

The bulletin adds, "Additional languages can be used to embellish a 
product, for example Javascript with webpages. However, these would be 
supplementary to the main language and not replace it."

They must, however, be object-oriented and have a GUI.

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Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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