What's Going On? February 5th through February 9th

Web 2


This week, students will start with some time to put some finishing touches on the home page for our Web 2 portfolio.  Throughout the semester, students will add to the portfolio and highlight some of the techniques that we have learned.  Once this is complete, we will explore some navigation features.  Students will then add some new navigation features to our home page and are encouraged to explore responsive design for their pages.


App Development 1

This week, students will continue to focus on variables.  Students will wrap up their variables challenge assignment and then check in with a short multiple-choice formative to make sure we have a firm understanding of the important role of variables.  Once this is done, students will work on our first end of unit app challenge: "Hello World".  For this app, students will apply what we have learned in class so far about labels, buttons, and image views.  Students will also be able to explore some new features on their own, including sliders and text
fields.


App Development 2


Students will start off the week by completing the "Classes Challenge", where students will work with an existing program and write the accompanying "Student" class.  Students will also check in with a short BlackBoard formative.  Once this is complete, we will spend some time talking about inheritance.  With this, students will complete an "Inheritance Challenge" and a short quiz.  We will finish the week by talking about delegation and table views.




AP Computer Science Principles

We will start off the week by finishing up our 2.2.1 activity on HTML5 and JavaScript.  Once this is complete, we will dive into activity 2.2.2, where we will investigate the role of PHP, a server-side scripting language.  In this activity, we will look at some JavaScript code that interacts with PHP in order to create a popout that will display information when a website user places their mouse over a specific image.