2012 ITSD Programming Languages

[Lasercookie]

I'm just interested in what programming languages people are using in ITSD.

My school is using Perl.

[iamtom]

I don't do SD anymore, but my teacher actually wrote the course & book and he teaches either C# or VB.Net.

I believe he is teaching VB.Net this year.

[Lasercookie]

I don't do SD anymore, but my teacher actually wrote the course & book and he teaches either C# or VB.Net.

I believe he is teaching VB.Net this year.

It must have been cool to have Adrian Janson as your teacher.

But yeah, VB.Net does seem to be fairly popular from people I've talked to.

[huss48]

VB.NET is the most popular one.

some schools uses Python.


laseredd  have u install the visual basic to ur comp??

i will upload some tasks/exercises very soon on that thread with resources.

[paulsterio]

I did VB6, which was stupid, but I agree VB.NET is popular and for a good reason too, it's a reasonably easy language to learn

[Lasercookie]

laseredd  have u install the visual basic to ur comp??

Nope, I've got perl installed on my computer - not using VB.NET this year.

The list for VCE ITSD approved languages for 2011 is here: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/correspondence/bulletins/2010/June/vce_study.html#H3N100B3
I'm not sure where the 2012 list is though, it doesn't seem to be in any of last years bulletins - I assume it hasn't changed from last year then.

[MJRomeo81]

I did VB6, which was stupid, but I agree VB.NET is popular and for a good reason too, it's a reasonably easy language to learn

We did VB6 as well. 2011 was its last year for VCE.

In all honesty though it doesn't matter what  you learn in year 11. What's more important is the fundamentals of programming - i.e algorithms.

[iamtom]

I don't do SD anymore, but my teacher actually wrote the course & book and he teaches either C# or VB.Net.

I believe he is teaching VB.Net this year.

It must have been cool to have Adrian Janson as your teacher.

But yeah, VB.Net does seem to be fairly popular from people I've talked to.

Adrian is a bro. Great source of inspiration, wisdom and assistance.

Funny thing about a lot of the languages on the list is he wanted to remove them. I think he only wanted C#, C++, Java, Basic (not VB6) and Python. That obviously didn't happen.

[paulsterio]

I have to agree with him there, a lot of languages on the list, such as PHP shouldn't even qualify as proper programming languages. I think your C++, C# and VB.NET would be the major ones from Microsoft, then there's Java which is probably the most popular programming language industry wise, and Python is more of an enthusiast/hobbyist language.

[iamtom]

That was his logic pretty much, I think Objective C was another option he wanted to add but it wasn't his call apparently, even though he wrote the curriculum. Either way, most teachers teach VB.Net, Python or Java from what I've seen & heard.

[Lasercookie]

That was his logic pretty much, I think Objective C was another option he wanted to add but it wasn't his call apparently, even though he wrote the curriculum. Either way, most teachers teach VB.Net, Python or Java from what I've seen & heard.

Objective-C is in the list (or was in the 2011 list anyway).

I guess they try to include more languages to give teachers a bit more choice, in case they're more familiar with one language than some other one.

[Genericname2365]

I'm doing PHP, heh. Distance Education