What's Going On? May 31st-June 3rd

Our Last Week of Classes!

It's hard to believe, but this is our last week of classes!  We will not have school on Monday due to Memorial Day, so that leaves us with three class periods this week.  Students will have all week and the exam period to work on our final projects.  Final projects are due by the end of the exam period.


Web 1

In addition to the final web project, students will also have a multiple choice portion as a portion of the exam.  These 20 questions will be made up of the review questions that we have been answering each week.  This portion of the exam will not be open-note or open internet.  Students will need to answer these questions from memory.  I would be happy to answer any and all questions related to the multiple-choice portion of the exam leading up to our 9:30am exam time on Wednesday June 8th.


Exam Schedule

Please check out the exam schedule.  You'll notice that the first exam does not begin until 9:30am each day.  You can use the time before the first exam to ask questions or work on your final project.  I will be at school beginning at 7:00am each day, so I would be happy to work with you at this time.  Do NOT be late to your exam period!

What's Going On? May 23-27th

Celebration Day!

Monday is North's annual celebration day!  Students will be attending celebration day with their class for one hour during the day.  Other students (over 400!) have signed up to be a part of North's first service learning day and will be volunteering in the community.  Please take a look at the schedule below to see what's going on.

Final Exam Schedule

The final exam schedule has been published.  Please be sure to check it out.  Students are required to attend their exam periods and may not leave class early.

Fundamentals of Programming

This week students will continue to work on their final app projects.  Students must complete the app and answer the review questions.  Both portions of this final project will be entered into Infinite Campus as a summative assessment.  All final projects must be posted to our Google portfolio sites by the day of our final exam (Tuesday, June 7th at 9:30am).


Programming the Web 1

This week students will continue to work on their final website projects.  Students must complete this project in order to receive a grade for the course. All final projects must be posted to Google Drive and have a link submitted by the end of our final exam period (Wednesday, June 8th at 9:30am).


Programming the Web 2

This week students will continue to work on their final animation projects.  Students are to create a 30-second animated music video. All final projects must be posted to Google Drive by the end of our final exam period (Wednesday, June 8th at 9:30am).

Fundamentals of Programming

The year is starting to wrap up.  Students need to work to make sure that all apps assigned for the semester have been completed and answers to the reflection questions have been posted on the Google Site portfolio.  Once we have wrapped up the regular course work, students can begin work on the final project.  For this summative final project students will create and design an app of their choosing that highlights what we have learned over the course of the semester.  Students should submit their own idea for an app and get approval before beginning work.  Students who have trouble coming up with an original idea for an app can choose from a list of suggestions: GPA calculator, Rock, Paper, Scissors, or a Magic 8 Ball.


Programming the Web 1

Students should be putting their finishing touches on our lesson 13 web assignment.  Once this is wcomplete, students will learn how to post their pages online using a free hosting site.  After the regular course work has been completed, students will begin work on their final project.  For this assignment, students must create a website made up of at least four web pages.  While designing and creating this site, students should incorporate the HTML structure and CSS design techniques that we have practiced throughout the course.  Students can choose to create their own page from scratch, create an online portfolio to use for college admission or job applications, or can look for another site that has already been implemented and improve upon its design.  Students will need to have their final project topics approved this week.


Programming the Web 2

This week students will continue their work with Adobe Flash Animations.  Students will work on the handwriting animation as well as the Rocket Action Script tutorial.

What's Going On? May 9th-13th

Fundamentals of Programming

This week students will work on wrapping up their Presidential Quiz Apps and then will get started on the Stock Market App.  In this app, students will be introduced to importing web data into the app in real time.  Students will create an app that allows the web user to type in a company's stock market symbol and the app will display the current stock price.


Programming the Web 1

This week we will start our last unit for the semester.  We have been creating web pages all semester, but we haven't talked about how to make them visible online.  Students will create their own free hosting accounts using 5gbfree.com in order to host their pages.  Additionally, this week students will work on our lesson 13 review assignment.  For this assignment, we will add three additional pages to our lesson 12 assignment.  By completing lesson 12, students have already created the general outline for all of the supplemental pages for lesson 13.  We will also need to add links in order to connect all of the pages.  Students will also have our lesson 13 review questions at the end of the week.


Programming the Web 2

This week students will continue to work on their "jumping letters" animation.  When this is complete, students will work on the "North Animation" which continues to use several layers to keep track of the items in the animation.  We will also introduce polygon shapes and rotations.  We will finish the week by working on the "handwriting" animation where students learn how to create text and break it apart.