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My high school computing exam (by government direction - VCE, graduated 2019) was filled with many such If a And b Then Return True Else Re

My high school computing exam (by government direction - VCE, graduated 2019) was filled with many such If a And b Then Return True Else Return False End If programs. Not sure why they were so scared of Return a And b. Apparently they got a new curriculum after I graduated; my teacher was very happy about it but I didn't get to see it myself.

hayley-patton 3y ago
Well, the 2019 final exam [0] lacks such questions; it must have been some other year. But the correct data type for an "AccountBalance" variable (section C, question 9) was a float, so I definitely lost marks on that question! The 2021 final exam (which is the most recent I can find) [1] somehow creates XML records for a SQL database (section C, question 7), and hints at using "data validation" to avoid an SQL injection (section C, question 11.c), which is quite exciting. And the 3.5 gigabit wireless connection (section A, question 13) is definitely not using an ISP-supplied router. [0] https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/2019/2019comp-softdev-w.pdf https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/2019/..., answers https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/2019/comp-softdev_examrep19.pdf https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/2019/... [1] https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/appliedcomp/2021/2021AC-softdev-w.pdf https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/appliedcomp/2021..., answers https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/appliedcomp/2021/2021softwaredev-report.pdf https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/appliedcomp/2021...
erik_seaberg 3y ago
In an intro class using Ada I’ve seen case Big_Expression_Here is when true => Do_Something; when others => Do_Something_Else; end case; and I found myself wondering whether they realize what this is.

hayley-patton 3y ago

Well, the 2019 final exam [0] lacks such questions; it must have been some other year. But the correct data type for an "AccountBalance" variable (section C, question 9) was a float, so I definitely lost marks on that question! The 2021 final exam (which is the most recent I can find) [1] somehow creates XML records for a SQL database (section C, question 7), and hints at using "data validation" to avoid an SQL injection (section C, question 11.c), which is quite exciting. And the 3.5 gigabit wireless connection (section A, question 13) is definitely not using an ISP-supplied router. [0] https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/2019/2019comp-softdev-w.pdf https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/2019/..., answers https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/2019/comp-softdev_examrep19.pdf https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/2019/... [1] https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/appliedcomp/2021/2021AC-softdev-w.pdf https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/appliedcomp/2021..., answers https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/appliedcomp/2021/2021softwaredev-report.pdf https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/appliedcomp/2021...

erik_seaberg 3y ago

In an intro class using Ada I’ve seen case Big_Expression_Here is when true => Do_Something; when others => Do_Something_Else; end case; and I found myself wondering whether they realize what this is.