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Last thought that I can’t resist making. To explain why I still think
that my school era [1980-1992] had “garbage” computer education,
let me put it this way:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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Did you know that the Victorian curriculum has gone <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>backwards</span></b> in programming skills since the 80s? An outlandish
claim? Well, I found Maths A and Maths B books in a hop shop. In the back of
them were instructions for coding in Pascal!!! There was a list of Pascal
commands! Where is that list [Java whatever] in today’s maths books?
Nowhere! The whole song and dance that the VCE is better than HSC at teaching
people to apply maths to real life is bollocks. I have never bought the whole
sales pitch that maths methods [It was change and approximation when I did VCE;
methods came later] is so flipping fantastic at teaching applied maths skills. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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While we are at it I spare no savagery for the whole “info tech”
subject either. I never did it. But it seems obvious to me that just as science
is broken up [enviro tech, physics, chem. Etc] info tech should be broken up as
well. There should be a subject where you take the computer physically apart
and aother one where you program. To lump info tech as one subject is dumb
dumb dumb. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> So
that’s what I think. Clearly my opinion of the VCE curriculum is pretty
low. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> John <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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