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Any idea which high schools are teaching Java in Gauteng? I know there are still quite a few schools stuck on Delphi:sick:

I have some time between projects and would like to try my hand at tutoring high school Java students
 
None that I know of.

Department of education singed a tender for Delphi iirc.
 
They're not "stuck" on Delphi, the Department of Education told them that the standard is Delphi and those that taught Java moved back to it.

It shouldn't matter though. We are afterall talking about 17/18 year olds and they'll learn another language after matric anyway.

Hardly a consideration when choosing a school. I'd take a qualified instructor stuck with Delphi over a hack who writes Java in his spare time any day of the week (and when I say hack I refer to the average "computer class" teacher in school).
 
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^^^ agreed. It was all Turbo Pascal in my day. Learnt a lot, despite never using it past high school.

Perhaps OP should consider tutoring in Delphi?
 
Delphi is a fine choice, at that level, they need to learn the basics of programming - something they can pick up with any major language like C++, Java, Delphi, etc.
 
Agreed with all points. The main reason for the question was that a pvt school kid in CT approached me for Java tutoring a while back, and we had lots of fun going through it. Just wanted to know if there were any pvt schools here in JHB that I could perhaps approach and do the same
 
Maybe approach parents with kids that have a real interest in programming? Parents let their kids take extra math classes, surely they'll do the same for programming/computer "science" (or whatever it is called in school nowadays )
 
Hamster said:
Maybe approach parents with kids that have a real interest in programming? Parents let their kids take extra math classes, surely they'll do the same for programming/computer "science" (or whatever it is called in school nowadays )
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Information Technology.
 
If I was thought php in school I would have been in a very different career vs where I am now.

Heck even Javascript.

The world is a web app.
 
Thor said:
If I was thought php in school I would have been in a very different career vs where I am now.

Heck even Javascript.

The world is a web app.
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Be very careful of this, PHP isn't the best language to learn on, there are many bad habits that can be picked up from PHP and the tool set isn't the best. For a high school student, Delphi is fine probably. Universities start student off on C++ for a good reason. Dot net is the best option for web development in my opinion, and .net core is will eventually become a major player for web development if it isn't already.
 
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Genisys said:
Be very careful of this, PHP isn't the best language to learn on, there are many bad habits that can be picked up from PHP and the tool set isn't the best. For a high school student, Delphi is fine probably. Universities start student off on C++ for a good reason. Dot net is the best option for web development in my opinion, and .net core is will eventually become a major player for web development if it isn't already.
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Oh for sure.

I'm just thinking about myself. I had IT in school back then it was Java, it was k@k slow over complicated and mostly it went over my head so I'm to blame too. Later on in life I picked up php with mySQL and it changed my life forever. I'm a weekend developer at best, but if I was thought this as an introduction language in school it would be different I would have enjoyed it and payed a lot more attention because fck here it is boom WhatsApp dad look what I build go tot his page blablabla.co.za.

It's just me I mean I needed a different stimulus to get into programming.
 
We had Turbo Pascal as a 7th subject.

I started my career with Delphi 6

Delphi I guess is a nice school language because there is limited time, and it is really easy to drop a button, double click and update a label.
 
Hamster said:
They're not "stuck" on Delphi, the Department of Education told them that the standard is Delphi and those that taught Java moved back to it.

It shouldn't matter though. We are afterall talking about 17/18 year olds and they'll learn another language after matric anyway.

Hardly a consideration when choosing a school. I'd take a qualified instructor stuck with Delphi over a hack who writes Java in his spare time any day of the week (and when I say hack I refer to the average "computer class" teacher in school).
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Agreed. If you can't learn a new language after learning the basic concepts then you didn't learn anything anyway.
 
_kabal_ said:
We had Turbo Pascal as a 7th subject.

I started my career with Delphi 6

Delphi I guess is a nice school language because there is limited time, and it is really easy to drop a button, double click and update a label.
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Same here. Also had Turbo Pascal in school. Then my first job was in Delphi. Then I moved to C/C++ and a couple of years ago I moved to C# mostly.
 
Different time for me...?
Latter part of high school, we had to petition school board for access to their administration's Sharp MZ80K. So in general my high school was limited to Computer Science Theory (Boolean Algebra, Logic Gates, ...) where computers were neither required or available.

Fortunately I had my hands on 1st a TI-99, then TI-99/4A followed by Apple II, BBC Model B, ...

First languages were: TI Basic, Sharp Basic, Apple Basic and TI Assembler
First job was: C on a Sun SPARCStation 1 and some RPG on a System/36. Turbo Pascal, Delphi, ... all came a bit later
 
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Different time for me...?
Latter part of high school, we had to petition school board for access to their administration's Sharp MZ80K. So in general my high school was limited to Computer Science Theory (Boolean Algebra, Logic Gates, ...) where computers were neither required or available.
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The computer version of "when I was young I had to walk 30 miles to school, with no shoes, in the rain".
 
flippakitten said:
The computer version of "when I was young I had to walk 30 miles to school, with no shoes, in the rain".
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30 miles (~48kn) :wtf:
At an average walking speed of 5km/h that equates to approximately 09h40 one way?
...and sounds like someone who:
  • never went to school?
  • was a superman of marathons?
  • rode a bus to school?

Ps. We had a bus :D
 
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