What's Going On? May 14th through May 18th

App Development 1

Students should be finishing up their "Word Play" apps at the beginning of this week.  After this, we will move into our next unit for the year.  Students will be working towards creating a "Rock Paper Scissors" app or a "Tic Tac Toe" app.  In order to prepare for this, students will be introduced to loops and how we can use them to look at a list of data.  We will also check out "Safari Services", which will allow us to call up a webpage within our app.

App Development 2

Students should be working on finishing up their "Brick Breaker" apps this week.  Once this is accomplished, students will move into the "Build Your Own App" challenge.  Students can work in a group of up to three people to create an app of their own design.  In preparation for this, we will talk about "Agile" development and how we can break up our app into small, manageable, achievable pieces.  Students will also create a three-minute video highlighting the functionality of their app.  At the end of the year, students will enter their app and video into the "Mobile Makers Build Your Own App Contest".  The top three apps will receive a prize.  Check out the details of the contest by clicking here.



Programming the Web 2

This week, students will dive further into the feature of the HTML5 Canvas.  This week, we will make a sample PacMac animation.  After going through this in-class example, students will have the opportunity to create their own simple animation.

AP Computer Science Principles

Even though the AP exam is complete, we still have plenty to do before the end of the school year.  This week, students will participate in a "hacking" activity called "Capture the Flag".  Students will work in small teams and use their knowledge gained so far throughout the course in order to complete some different "hacking" challenges.  We will be using a previously published cybersecurity game provided called PICOCTF.