Every year since 2008, I have had the wonderful opportunity to set the IT P1 preliminary paper on a voluntary free basis for the Limpopo Local Department of Education.
Limpopo is a province who's learners and teachers are very close to my heart.
For this year I have decided to base the paper around a dog show theme.
I particularly tried to make Question 1 easy to accommodate average learners to also score some marks, and to set the pace for the rest of the paper.
I take cognisance of the time issue, but it is determined and implemented via the national examination body (based on the CAPS). I tried to follow the exam guidelines in setting the paper. I also allocate marks for simple statements in the beginning.
Moderation of the paper is done by provincial teachers, with the understanding that each educator will also thoroughly examine the paper and apply any necessary changes.
The data and paper presented here do indeed differ from the original.
Comments relating to the paper will be gladly be accepted to my private email.
The applicable files are available for download here: IT_Prelim_Paper1_Limpopo_2014
Happy coding!
Dear learners and teachers
Please read the following invite. I encourage you to please enroll for this event.
More details in the document.
Invitation Letter
The idea is not to replace any other similar competitions but to provide expanded opportunity for exposure. Even if you have entered your PAT for one competition, feel free to do so again!
Hope to see many of you there!
Bertie
On the 26th of July Unisa (ICT Florida Campus) hosted a wonderful IT Delphi day for teachers in their district, orginised by Mr Hennie van Tonder and arranged by Mrs Ronel van der Merwe (Lecturer Unisa) and Mr Collin Pillkington (Lecturer Unisa)
During the workshop content relating to the PAT and DB related issues where covered and the teachers where introduced to AppMethod (which supports free development in Object Pascal for Android Phones for learners) by Mr Bernard Sibanda.
As part of the presentation some alternate content and approach do DB connectivity and access where demonstrated with the implementation of ClientDataSet components and some relevant events. We also covered Master Detail relationships and the creation of a Master-Detail form, using parameterised queries.
The teachers were also shown how easy it is to create multi-platform mobile applications with Delphi and deploy the application to a Mobile device whilst debugging the application in a Windows environment.
The day was a huge success, with teachers being motivated and even Unisa lecturers surprised.
Links to the content done that day is presented below:
CycleDB
PostalCodeDB
CycleDBApp
TyreDB
ParamDBExampleMD
On the 2nd of July we had a wonderful workshop, in Mpulalanga where two schools eager learners braved the cold for some Delphi tips and tricks.
It was wonderful to see the dedication of the teachers and subject advisor and (Mr Gerhard Raath).
The one thing that always motivates me, is the way in which learners faces light-up when they grasp something. Showing them some mobile development as well as some OOP concepts created many such light switch occasions. :)
I am very happy and proud for Mpumalanga!
Go Gerhard and all the teachers!
Whilst browsing the net, I came across the following YouTube channel. The presenter is really skilled and presents concepts in a set of videos which in my oppinion have taken hours to create!
What a wonderful discovery, of content and a presenter with not only with the correct know-how but the correct understanding of what programing in High School entail, especially in our context!
Hoping for many such tutorials to come!
YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFZxawRN6quppxog_L0LjNg
Web page
http://www.delphischools.co.za/wvideo.php
In the following set of examples and downloads, Heimo presents some wonderful content relating to RGB blending Hexadecimal, Decimal and Binary conversions as well as some wonderful operations on bitmap images.
Heimo is TUT's on resident Delphi expert!
Thank you Heimo for all your contributions to this site.
ppt used as part of the Glen High presentation may be downloaded: Here
ppt in zip format may be downloaded: Here
Delphi Colour Sample applications may be downloaded: Here
In the following example Heimo Jeske of TUT presents content on how to download and watch YouTube videos in a Delphi application. Great potential idea for inclusion in a PAT.
Thanks Heimo
The sample application can be downloaded: HERE
The accompanying pdf with some ActiveX information can be downloaded: HERE
