The Software Development Grotto

Approved programming languages and necessary programming skills (adapted from VCE Bulletin #38, June 2006)

The bulletin also specifies that:

"In the development of this software, students should be able to:
• develop a graphical user interface (GUI), for use in portable computing devices, such as laptops, personal digital assistants, gaming consoles, mobile phones
• construct and use data structures, for example arrays, strings, sets, lists, tables, records and stacks
• design, construct and use fi les to store and retrieve data
• design and apply data-validation techniques
• use program control structures: selection, iteration and sequencing.
The purpose-designed software will entail the use of objects, methods and their properties, and event-driven
programming."

Approved languages

• Delphi
• Visual Basic (not Visual Basic for Applications)
• REALbasic
• Visual Basic.NET
• Visual C++ , Visual C#
• Visual Fox Pro
• Pascal (object-oriented variations only)
• Visual J, Visual J#
• Java
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby

The bulletin adds, "Additional languages can be used to embellish a product, for example Javascript with webpages. However, these would be supplementary to the main language and not replace it."

Also: "Specific distributions, projects or variations of languages may be suitable as long as they are able to address the criteria listed above..."  Read the bulletin for more details.