What's Going On? December 4th through December 8th

Note: I will be out of the classroom on Monday morning due to Yearbook Club Picture day and on Tuesday and Wednesday due to a conference.  I will still be available to answer questions via e-mail.

Hour of Code
December 4th through December 8th is Computer Science Education Week.  This week, students from all over the world will participate in an activity to learn a little bit more about computer science.  North will hold our own activity after school on Thursday from 3:10-4:10pm in room 300.  During this session, we will work with a Google add-on called "Story Speaker".  In this session, each student will have a chance to write a "Choose your adventure"-style story.  Once the story is written, with all of the different options, students can have Google present the story.  This program can be run via a Chrome browser and also with a Google Home device.

Programming the Web 1

This week, we will dive into lesson 11 where we will talk about how we can hide text using the "Phark Technique" as well as how to create a responsive web page.  During Monday's class we will finish going through our notes.  For our class periods Wednesday through Friday, students will be working on web assignments 11A and 11B.  Our weekly reading guide will be checked during class on Thursday and we will complete our weekly review questions during class on Friday.

App Development 1

This week, students will be working to complete our end of unit app challenge: Word Play.  I would expect that we will wrap up this app mid-week.  After this, we will move into our final project for the semester: Rock, Paper Scissors.  We will finish off the week by talking about how to design a large-scale project and sketch it out using pseudocode.  We will also talk about how we can repeat a portion of code using loops.

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, we will continue our study of images and object-oriented libraries.  We will talk about how we can modify images using an algorithm.  We will also take some time toward the end of the week to talk about our "Explore" task.  For this task, students are required to research how a specific piece of technology has impacted society.  Later in the year, students will have a minimum of 8 hours of class time to complete the research and write up their findings.









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