[Yr11 Information Technology] Re: Unit 2 Outcome 1:Programming

[Roland Gesthuizen]

One of my VCE students won an IT scholarship and returned to school after a
January University summer camp with some experience programming in Python
and some very good impressions about how easy it was to learn and use.
During the camp, her team built a web crawling Internet robot and a computer
game then had a quick look at VPython. She had only just cut her teeth on
GameMaker in year 10 and again at year 11.

>From what I can Google, there are ooodles of resources, tutorials and
training videos out there. Free to download and works on Windows and
Unix/Linux/MacOSX systems. Would love to learn it myself beyond just typing
"hello world". :-)

Regards Roland

On 13/06/07, Steven Bird <sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> >  Our students do Flash in Yr 9,  VB.NET in Yr 10, PHP and MySQL in Yr
> > 12 so I am thinking I might go with either :
> >
> >    1. Basic PHP/MySQL or
> >    2. VBA behind Access or Excel or
> >    3. ASP in web pages or
> >    4. java  or
> >    5. javascript or
> >    6. python
>
> As I've mentioned previously on this list, we've chosen Python in our
> new first year IT subjects at Melbourne University.  Sydney Uni also
> teaches Python in its first year IT curriculum.
>
> More detail on our new first year informatics subjects is available here:
>   http://www.informatics.unimelb.edu.au/
>
>
> Steven Bird
> http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/<http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/%7Esb/>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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