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I got 74% raw (without 10% extra), so the teacher will make it 84%, yeah i'm top, my class sux. ;)

I could post the paper, but it will have all my answers all over it, and only the Evolution of programming languages option - does anyone want me to?

I did the independent - i got 74%. We have 13 in the class and apparently only two of us passed. My teacher throught some of the questions were not very suitable, and to make our marks more "fair", he has added 10% to all our marks, although he didn't change any of the questions.

I think it means "pascal [or] structured version of BASIC", anyway, my SDD teacher always complains about VB, and says we should be learing pascal, but we have to do VB cause that is what we have software for at school...

From the SDD course specifications (the ones with Methods of Algorithm Description):

Yeah, there is definately a 03 standards package - i am looking at it right now - it is the one with respones to the 03 paper. It is 76mb through, so i dunno if i can post it.

I think there is a 03 standards package for SDD - i am quite sure i have it at home, but i don't know how i can post it, considering how large it is. If you want, i think you can buy a cd with it from BOS.

I got 74%, but i think that's not too bad, considering only two of us got over 50% :D

Oh, ok, thanks :D Why wouldn't you use FOR...NEXT loops? - do you mean just to be safe for the HSC, or is there actually some other reason not to use them?

Is it worth studying the stuff in prelim for the HSC (in addition to HSC course of course)? Will there be much stuff from prelim? Cause my teacher said that last year they had to convert binary hex or something, so the software deveopers' view of the hardware people were advantaged, although it...

Oh cool, thanks :D In that document, above the methods of algorithm description part, there is some stuff about what the languages we study should contain, and in the syntax of a FOR ... NEXT loop, it has: FOR <control variable> taking <initial value> TO <final value> BY steps of 1 DO...

I didn't know there was a new "methods of algorithm description" document - where do we find that??

We better be able to use them - i use them all the time! :D They were used in Q23 of the 2002 HSC, so if a question can use them, why shouldn't we be allowed to answer with them? Hmm... maybe i should start using DO WHILE's instead... Btw, it seems that the Fowler book and the HSC use FOR ...

I just found out that the paper i did was the independent trial - did anyone else do that one?? I got 74% - not too good, but it was top of the class :D

I'd say a bit of both is good, programming helps you to understand the concepts, and the textbook addresses the syllabus points that you need to know, which will not be all learnt from just programming (e.g. evolution of programming laguages). Also, as Raymes said, practical work is required of...

Have you checked the BoS main page?

OpenMG (the s/w you get with MD's) has a vocal canceller. It doesn't work really well and doesn't work on all songs, but...

Hmm.. That code looks a bit buggy - where did you get it from. It looks like it is supposed to draw a number (NumLines) of lines starting from the origin. i.e the origin to some point in the form, then another line from the other end of that line and so on... Maybe it is supposed to have...

Well, structured datatypes such as records (User Defined Types in VB, or Structs/Unions in C++), must have their structures defined first before they can be simply declared using their datatype. e.g. if you made a coordinate datatype, in VB, you would do something like: Type Coordinate X...

I used Word too, because our diagrams had to be readable by the teacher, and the school computer, and all our computers pretty much only have office. I used to use SmartDraw for electronics in Yr 10, since you can't really draw circut diagrams very easily in Word.