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| Thread ID: 90307 | 2008-05-30 04:12:00 | High school computer classes... | vitalstatistix (9182) | PC World Chat |
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| 673800 | 2008-05-30 04:12:00 | Anyone else on this forum have similar experiences to the students interviewed in this article? www.stuff.co.nz |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 673801 | 2008-05-30 06:20:00 | Pretty much the same as them. I took Computer Science during year 10 and 11. Pretty useless IMO. Just very basic Office stuff, some database.... I would rather they focus more on hardware as well. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 673802 | 2008-05-30 06:26:00 | OMG, I knwo 3 of those people and 2 of them were in the same computing class at me in 7th form. :eek: I actually found it useful - made learning Access this year much easier knowing some of the basics. But it was VERY basic stuff we learnt. We did Access, Excel, Publisher, VB, web pages. All at really low levels. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 673803 | 2008-05-30 07:22:00 | Pretty much the same as them. I took Computer Science during year 10 and 11. Pretty useless IMO. Just very basic Office stuff, some database.... I would rather they focus more on hardware as well. Thanks for the reply. I was quite surprised to read about the very basic level of teaching in the "Computer Science" course. I would have thought that it might cover more useful and relevant stuff web/multimedia/basic programming - or is that covered too? Some hardware stuff would be useful as well considering what is available and considered to be standard requirement in a lot of jobs today. |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 673804 | 2008-05-30 07:33:00 | I have studied Year 11 Computer Studies and Year 12 Business Computing, its pretty much just Microsoft Word and Excel, but recently its been Access 2007, its intense, lol. | Craig Mellor (13762) | ||
| 673805 | 2008-05-30 07:53:00 | Do they teach you how to set up decent Keynote/Powerpoint presentations in Yr 12 business studies? And how to do stuff like record your own podcasts which are now a regularly used business tool? I take it they don't cover any useful stuff like basic coding with mysql or php or .net or anything? |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 673806 | 2008-05-30 13:13:00 | Definitely not VS. My INFO101 paper covered Access and Excel with some computer safety and GUI principles. And this is at uni! |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 673807 | 2008-05-30 18:59:00 | Definitely not VS. My INFO101 paper covered Access and Excel with some computer safety and GUI principles. And this is at uni! I have to say that in this day of Web 2.0 that is scary.:eek: Considering that I was doing the same stuff for evening classes 10 years ago so that I could get the basics of MS Office which had only been out for about 3 years or so. |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 673808 | 2008-05-30 20:59:00 | Most high school It I have seen round here consists of MS Office and not much else. A pathetic waste of time, most high school age people here already know this sort of thing. Had a friend who years ago in Hamilton did IT in 7th form and it was useful, she did a bit of programming. She went on to Polytech and now earns enormous amounts of money at Datacom doing development. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 673809 | 2008-05-31 02:32:00 | Most high school It I have seen round here consists of MS Office and not much else. A pathetic waste of time, most high school age people here already know this sort of thing. Had a friend who years ago in Hamilton did IT in 7th form and it was useful, she did a bit of programming. She went on to Polytech and now earns enormous amounts of money at Datacom doing development. Aren't most intermediate and secondary school kids that are into computers creating their own web pages on myspace and bebo and using Dreamweaver, MS Front page and iWeb at home already? |
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