Is ANYONE gonna post here?

[Skizzarz]

man its been a week since theres been a single vb help post, is every one pro or smthn?

[Tony]

haha yeah

actually I think its just me and homer here Reason being there're other much larger VB forums out there compsci.ca is still relativly new

[Homer_simpson]

hehe yeah... and there's only been 2 programs posted other than mine...

[McKenzie]

I think it has to do with the curriculum taught in the province. I know that I teach VB at the gr10 level. The vast majority of them are not looking to go "above and beyond" they are happy if their programs work. I know that a lot of schools don't even touch VB.

[Thuged_Out_G]

my school has the whole microsoft visual studio on ALL their computers...yet they teach turing, to everyone....although they may teach java next year, although i highly doubt it

[shorthair]

Grade 10 = Logic and Turing
Grade 11 = Advanced Turing , Binary writing
Grade 12 = Java

[santabruzer]

while we are on the topic.. is there anything important taught in the gr11 course that is needed for the gr12.. i'm thinking of skipping to java

[shorthair]

WEll java is really different , and if your willing to jsut learn some at home or teach yourself , you should be fine , most people who take grade 12 do really well , there to ones who actually were good at 10 & 11 , it will be no walk in the park , but if you lok carefully your school would probably pay for you to take your sun certification at hte end of the corse , its suposedly one of the hardest certifications to get but once you have it , it would look awsome on any resume

[apomb]

im in gr eleven and i am just finishing a java course in which i have done well. last year we did turing and i found that the ppl who were taught turing last yesr did better in java than those who didnt take turing
-in gr 12 visual C++
personally, i am interested in vb and that is one reason im posting...

[santabruzer]

my teacher just said that i'm way ahead of the class and that it'll take some time, but i could easily manage it. i'm just trying to see if i should go for it or not..

[Tony]

don't even think of skipping java, since it's THE language 8) I think all first year CS uni courses are in Java

[Homer_simpson]

man... i hate java! i wish they'd teach c++ in 12

[McKenzie]

As this VB topic evolves into a VC++ vs Java debate perhaps this is a good place to bounce my ideas off people. I've been teaching C in gr12 and C++ in OAC for years. With the loss of OAC I've dropped the ANSI-C and went straight to C++. As Tony points out Java is used in quite a few Universities and it is gaining support in the workplace. I'm planning on teaching Java next year for gr12.
Homer - why do you hate Java?
Tony - why do you love it?

[shorthair]

I have no problem learning java next year , what rocks is my school pays for any first try of certification , i get a shot at the A+ next year at the end of grade 12 engineering , I thnk java is pretty useful , but im not sure if il keep it up well it really depends what the university of ontario will teaches ( Where i would like to go ) , i think that they Do C++ , ohh and on ht er site the do Java aswell, so really both of those languages are useful

[shorthair]

Someone should move this to general discussion and change the name to something else , so people can see what they will belearing in the future and what its like ,