What's Going On? October 29th through November 2nd

App Development

This week, we will continue our study of functions.  Students will work on our "Functions Challenge" for the first two class periods this week.  This will allow students to practice writing functions and calling functions within the context of a larger Swift program.  This challenge will serve as a formative for the class.  Additionally, students will see a short multiple choice formative this week to gauge our level of understanding of how and why functions work.  At the end of the week, we will spend some time talking about conditionals.

Programming the Web 1

We will start off this week by finishing up lesson 7.  Students should upload our lesson 7 web

assignments (7A, 7B, and 7C) by the end of class on Monday.  On Wednesday, we will start with our lesson 7 review questions.  Once lesson 7 is complete, we will begin lesson 8.  This lesson will focus on the "Box Model" where we will learn how to apply padding and margins to different elements within our web page.  Students will have one web assignment tutorial to complete this week (8A).  We will end the week by checking in our lesson 8 reading guides and our lesson 8 review questions.

This is the last lesson before we complete our midterm exam.  For the midterm, students will see 20 questions from the 80 review questions we have completed so far.  Students will also have the week to create a four-page web site based on provided screenshots.  During the exam, students can use past assignments, our textbook, and Google.

AP Computer Science A

This week, students will spend the class periods on Monday and Tuesday working on our summative
Programming Project #4.  For this project, students will work on four different Java programs that demonstrate their understanding of reading in input from the program user, performing mathematical operations, and using methods from the String class.  Students should also be working on the Review Exercises and be prepared to turn them in by Tuesday.  During class on Wednesday, we will talk about our unit 4 summative assessment and during class on Friday, students will complete the unit 4 summative.  Students should also turn in their Summative Review (practice test) and Programming Project #4 by the beginning of class on Friday.


Registering for the AP Computer Science A Exam

Students should also be aware that the registration portal to register for the AP exam is now open.  Students can register at http://www.TotalRegistration.net/AP/502389.  Students must register by January 28, 2019 to avoid any late fees.

For students who are already starting to plan ahead, you can see which colleges accept the AP Computer Science score.  Please check out https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/creditandplacement/search-credit-policies or http://uwhelp.wisconsin.edu/prep-for-college/credits/testing-ap-ib for more information about the type of credit that will be received for successfully completing the AP exam.