[Year 12 SofDev] Should I teach lists?

Mon Mar 7 10:38:18 AEDT 2016

Hi Ben,
              Personally steer away from Lists and Dictionaries, even though they're technically easier to use (and in at least the case of dictionaries, sometimes faster) purely because I don't want to add any extra confusion for the students. When it comes to exams, they are likely to be asked questions about arrays. If they put in an example in list format, an exam assessor may not get that and give them zero.... Especially if you look at RemoveAt() and other list shortcuts.
That's just my overly cautious approach, quite possibly I'm underselling the students ability to discriminate the best time to use it.
Cheers
Damien

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From: Baas, Benjamin B [mailto:baas.benjamin.b at edumail.vic.gov.au]
Sent: Monday, 7 March 2016 9:49 AM
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Should I teach lists?

Hi all,

I'm contemplating whether on not I should teach my students about Lists in C# and VB as they will be of more use to them then Arrays when doing their SAT (List are dynamic and have more functionality). I just wanted to know what peoples thoughts are on this and if they go beyond the data collections mentioned in the study design. The SD just mentions Arrays and Records.

Cheers,

Ben.

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