What's Going On? March 12th through March 16th

App Development 1

Now that our "Multiply App" is wrapping up, we will be diving into our next unit.  We will spend some time talking about functions and students will participate in  "Functions Challenge".  We will also spend time focusing on conditionals: how we can determine the next steps of a program based on a set of criteria.  Some students already dove into this with our "Multiply" app where students showed three different pictures based on the results of our calculation: show North's logo when our result is over 100, show a funny picture when the result is even and show a funnier picture when the result is odd.


App Development 2

Students will spend Monday's class finishing up our "Assignment Notebook" end of unit app challenge.  After that, we will start taking a look at Composition: How the objects and their protocols in apps are organized. Students will work on a "Composition Challenge" during class on Wednesday.  We will finish up the week with a short composition quiz and we will start our discussion on "modal segues".  This is a different way to transition from one view controller to another.

Programming the Web 2

We will start off the week with students working on their "Image Gallery" for their portfolio pages.  Students will choose 10 images to use, format them properly for the web, and choose two image techniques to showcase the images.  

After our Image Gallery work is complete, we will start our work with JavaScript.  Students will be introduced to how variables can be used in order to make a web page more interactive.  Once we go through some of the basics, students will apply their knowledge to creating a "Menu" website that will automatically display a different dinner special based on the day of the week.

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will start their "Create" task that will be submitted to the AP board that will be counted as 24% of the AP score.  On Monday, we will look at some sample app submissions and analyze the scoring for each.  We will also brainstorm a list of potential app ideas that students could potentially take on for their project.  Students will have 12 class hours to work on their "Create" task that will be submitted on April 15th.  For this task, students must create their own app and analyze the development process as well as the app's makeup.  Since this is an official AP assignment, students may not receive feedback from outside sources.  I have provided a template, a scoring guide, and a checklist to help students stay organized during this task.