Software Engineering - year 11 (1 Viewer)

[fishman]

Hi. I'm currently doing Software Engineering in year 11 and am disappointed that no real textbook is available. My teacher seems to be giving very little and basic information. Does anyone have any notes or can advise any texts to look at. I have my final exams coming up and dont know where to start.

 

[cossine]

Hi. I'm currently doing Software Engineering in year 11 and am disappointed that no real textbook is available. My teacher seems to be giving very little and basic information. Does anyone have any notes or can advise any texts to look at. I have my final exams coming up and dont know where to start.

Are there any specific topics that you are interested?

 

[Socialism]

I asked a similar question and received this answer:

yeah sdd has similar syllabus to software engineering - not 1-1 but many of the same topics. i'd say that things have been added more than they have been removed - from memory, software engineering keeps what was at the core of sdd, then adds on a bunch of new topics like machine learning, python in final exams, mechatronics, security etc, also the optional topics have been merged. so i'd recommend doing a bunch of the newer sdd past papers (the older ones, while in the same syllabus, kind of ask questions in a different way and i would say aren't as relevant as the newer ones to software engineering), additionally closer to the hsc next year, nesa will likely put out a set of sample questions so you'll know what the hsc exam will roughly be like (this is what they did when they updated the science syllabus). for now, just grind out textbook q's, past papers and whatever your teacher gives you, from a brief look the only year 11 topic that wasn't covered by the old sdd syllabus was programming mechatronics (and oop was covered in the optional section). and of course coding websites like codewars can also help for giving you new programming problems

Additionally, I would check out
Software Engineering Curriculum - NESA
HSC Familiarisation Questions

 

[fishman]

Are there any specific topics that you are interested?

The Year 11 topics thanks!

Programming Fundamentals
The Object-Oriented Paradigm
Programming Mechatronics

 

[fishman]

I asked a similar question and received this answer:

Additionally, I would check out

Thanks, I had a look but the content looks a bit old? Maybe im not looking closely enough and need to get hold of the SDD book somewhere

 

[cossine]

The Year 11 topics thanks!

Programming Fundamentals
The Object-Oriented Paradigm
Programming Mechatronics

I was going to recommend python course.

This should be enough for the programming fundamentals. Object-oriented programming is covered but I don't know if it will be in enough detail.

 

[AshtTan123]

Maybe. Just maybe. These may help...

Teach support resources for each topic
-> Programming Fundamentals (.docx) download
-> Object Oriented Paradigm (.docx) download
-> Programming Mechatronics (.docx) download

Sources (all of them from here, from specific topics)
-->I can't post links so...
1. Google this... TAS 11–12 curriculum resources.. Click on the first NESA link with similar title.
2. Choose the Software Engineering stuff from the navigation pane
3. Skim through the panels and pick the topic you are interested in...
4. You get to a page with activities and solutions for the topic on there.
5. If you have multiples topics, do steps 3 and 4 for each topic.

For future references (like for Yr12), there might be some stuff on there.
Oh, yeah. The docos are in .docx format.


This guy on YouTube who goes through a little about some of the Software Engineering Topics (like mind maps of the course content, basically)...
Christopher Kalodikis. Goes by the tag @maximumeducation.

In the playlists, skim through the titles until you find the Software Engineering topics you're looking for. Most of the topics (the big 3 of year 11 software engineering) have just a mindmap of the syllabus. It may not be as detailed. But, combine that with the resources you can find there, I think it will be a great help.

Hope it helps!!

 

[igor9]

DON'T DO SOFTWARE, YUCKY SUBJECT, NO GOOD SCALING, ONLY WORK FOR NO RETURN!

 

[Socialism]

DON'T DO SOFTWARE, YUCKY SUBJECT, NO GOOD SCALING, ONLY WORK FOR NO RETURN!

lmao bit late bruh

 

[Socialism]

if you're doing it since its only 2025 everyone is now at prelims
and most 2026's have already picked subjects

 

[AshtTan123]

DON'T DO SOFTWARE, YUCKY SUBJECT, NO GOOD SCALING, ONLY WORK FOR NO RETURN!

Hmmm....
About the "No Good Scaling"... its debatable.
--> (Investigation Science scaled when it first ever started. Also, everybody gets scaled anyway, even if by different amounts both ways.)

And, about "Only work for no return" ... Not really true.
--> Scaling and all the bits of calculations are really only done to keep things fair (and keep students not disadvantaged by how competitive a subject is... i think, but not really the point).
Still, it might be good to keep it if it's your passion or even if just exploring options.
If another subject seems better for you, then it would prolly is better for you to go with that subject.

 

[jilly12]

Im just going to wing it and hope for the best. I'm gonna drop it next term tho so I'm not to worried (although don't wanna completely fumble it for early entry)

 

[igor9]

Hmmm....
About the "No Good Scaling"... its debatable.
--> (Investigation Science scaled when it first ever started. Also, everybody gets scaled anyway, even if by different amounts both ways.)

And, about "Only work for no return" ... Not really true.
--> Scaling and all the bits of calculations are really only done to keep things fair (and keep students not disadvantaged by how competitive a subject is... i think, but not really the point).
Still, it might be good to keep it if it's your passion or even if just exploring options.
If another subject seems better for you, then it would prolly is better for you to go with that subject.

bit too late now mate, got my hsc in 30 days.