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The Computing Department equips Senior School students with the skills necessary to use computers with confidence in a wide variety of areas. We acknowledge that learning is a consequence of thinking, and that it is our job to create opportunities for our students to be highly involved in the learning process, rather than being passive acceptors of knowledge.
In Years 9 and 10, students are introduced to the exciting world of software development, both through the use of computing languages as well as through the sophisticated use of other design applications such as databases, spreadsheets and multimedia web design applications. Our students learn to problem solve, and apply this understanding to creating computer based solutions to meet specified needs. Students work individually and in groups, enhancing and broadening their skills with each new task, and we find that students tend to work at a pace that meets their individual needs. Each year, we offer our students the opportunity to compete in a number of National Programming Competitions.
We offer a range of senior courses in Computing to cater for students of all interest areas and skill levels, including Software Design and Development (SDD) for our computer Programmers, Information Processing Technology (IPT) for our Information System aficionados and Computer Applications (CAP) for those who wish to learn more about the use of software applications. We are very proud of our HSC results in these senior subjects, where our students consistently appear in merit lists and lists of the top ten students in the state.
The College has produced many excellent computer programmers, a number of whom whilst still at school have experienced great success in national programming competitions. It gives us great pleasure to note the significant numbers of our students who select and are accepted into Computer Science and Information systems careers and courses at Tertiary level. We are also very proud of our many graduates who have been offered Co-op scholarships in the areas of Computer Science and Information Systems on their entry into University.
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