Grade 11 U Computer Science Course

[Mentos]

Hi I was wondering if any one could help me with what kind of languages a grade 11 U computer science class in ontario would work with.

[DemonWasp]

You could be working with any of Turing, Visual Basic, C/C++ or Java. Other languages aren't out of the question either, but that list is the most common set. I personally worked with VB 6 (not a happy language).

[andrew.]

We did Java. Most schools in my area use Java or C++. I wish they did Python though.

[Analysis Mode]

C++ in 11 and 12.

[Alexmula]

our grade 12 class did python . turing in gr10 and 11 though

[TheGuardian001]

It varies highly from school to school. I had to sleep through another year of Turing.

[Joel92]

Please anything but HTML & VB6 (What my Gr.11 Class was)


Someone mentioned Python, or Ruby would be a pretty interesting choice.

[jbking]

Back in my day we had Watcom Basic and Commodore Pet assembler for my Grade 11 Advanced Computer Science class in Ontario along with some hardware like building our own adder or nand gate substitution. That was back in 1992 so there may have been an update since then.

[saltpro15]

@jbking
sweet! I wish we had CE at my school

@Mentos
Most likely Java/C++. My teacher's pretty lenient, as long as we get the work done he doesn't care what language we use.

[McKenzie]

As you can see the language choices vary by city. Why do you want to know? I assume you are moving to Ontario and want to prepare yourself. We can help you better if we know more. As an aside I teach Python in grade 11.

[andrew.]

jbking @ Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:06 am wrote:

Back in my day we had Watcom Basic and Commodore Pet assembler for my Grade 11 Advanced Computer Science class in Ontario along with some hardware like building our own adder or nand gate substitution. That was back in 1992 so there may have been an update since then.

I wish I could do that. I envy you and my dad for doing that in high school.

[wtd]

McKenzie @ Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:02 am wrote:

As you can see the language choices vary by city. Why do you want to know? I assume you are moving to Ontario and want to prepare yourself. We can help you better if we know more. As an aside I teach Python in grade 11.

Or just stick with something simple.

HtDP

[Mentos]

Thank you for all the replys, i was just wondering because i wanted to start learning another language and i was hoping i could learn something that we will be using in class next year. I would ask the teachers but its summer so i cant. And thanks again for all the replys

[Analysis Mode]

Go to the Ontario Curriculum website and look at the Grade 11U CompSci section in the CompSci pdf.

[Tony]

Mentos @ Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:57 pm wrote:

i was hoping i could learn something that we will be using in class next year.

That might or might not be a good idea. One of the views is that you'll be well ahead of the class (at least in terms of syntax) and not pay attention to the way your teacher wants you to approach your assignments. There's a chance that your own coding habits might clash with what is expected.

It could be more interesting to play with a different language, so that you wouldn't end up learning the same thing twice. Besides, a lot of concepts are easily transferable between languages.