[Year 12 SofDev] Approved programming languages for 2011

[Mark KELLY]

Hi all.  I've just got the latest bulletin.  Here's a rundown of the
approved languages for 2011...


Approved programming languages and necessary programming skills for 2011
(adapted from VCE Bulletin #80, June 2010)

"In the development of solutions, students should be able to:
• develop a graphical user interface (GUI), for use in mobile computing
devices, such as laptops, personal digital assistants, gaming consoles,
mobile phones
• construct and use data structures, for example multidimensional arrays,
strings, sets, lists, tables, records, queues and stacks
• design, construct and use files (not databases) 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

   - Basic (object-oriented variations only e.g. VB.NET)
   - C++
   - C#
   - Objective C
   - Visual Fox Pro
   - Pascal (object-oriented variations only, e.g. Delphi)
   - Java
   - Perl
   - PHP
   - Python
   - Ruby

The bulletin also adds, "With all of the above languages, databases are *not
* to be used to support the construction of solutions."

Note the removal of Real Basic, Visual J and Visual J++, and the addition of
Objective C.
Also note the emphasis on multidimentional arrays and the specific exclusion
of databases: it's good to get that old argument out of the way!

-- 
Mark Kelly
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