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

[Mark Kelly]

And of course Windows Vista is written in Python  :-)

Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au>> wrote:
> 
>      >  Our students do Flash in Yr 9,  VB.NET <http://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/
>     <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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> -- 
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