What's Going On? November 9-13th

Fundamentals of Programming

This week students will be finishing up our "Pong" app. Once this is complete, we will review some of the underlying principles that allow the app to function. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the important programming concepts with a short formative assessment.  Then, students will have the opportunity to get their creative juices flowing with our second "creative project". Students have will design and create an app with the following components:

• objects that move over time (e.g., a spaceship flying across the screen)
• objects who move or are transformed in reaction to end-user activities (e.g., OrientationSensor to control movement)
• objects that (dis-)appear in reaction to end-user activities (e.g., an asteroid disappearing when shot)
• use of conditional (if) blocks
• use of collidedWith and edgeReached blocks

Programming the Web 1

Students will have the entire week to complete our WCTC midterm exam and project. On Wednesday, students will complete a 20 question multiple choice assessment based on the review questions that we have seen throughout the semester so far. This assessment will not be open-book and open-note. However, students have access to the list of all questions we have seen in the student handout posted on our BlackBoard class website.  

In addition to the multiple choice assessment, students will be creating a website based off of several photos. Students will be given the final look of the site and will need to duplicate the look.  The website will consist of four web pages. Students will be provided with the text and photos, the main objective is to demonstrate how HTML and CSS work together to create a final layout.  The midterm project must be uploaded to Google Drive by the end of class on Friday.

Programming the Web 2

The portfolio home page and image gallery have taken a little longer than anticipated to complete, so this week we will finally move on to our form assignment. Students will create a short survey to try out the different elements that can be included in a form.