What's Going On? October 8th through October 12th

App Development 1

This week, students will start off by completing our "Operators Challenge".  For this challenge, students will work with conditional operators in order to compare two different quantities (think: less than, greater than, equal to, etc).  Students should expect to see a short formative assessment to check our level of understanding of operators.  After this, we will spend a little time talking about "constraints".  That is, placing items on the screen exactly where we want them, regardless of device.  At the end of the week, we will work on our formative hackwich, "Commission Pay".  This app will help students read information read into a textfield and manipulate it.




AP Computer Science A

We will start off the week by talking about graphics.  After this, students will have some work time in the lab to practice defining, writing and working with classes and objects.  This week, students will need to complete our Review Exercises set.  Students should also have completed Practice Exercise Sets 1-4 as well as our chapter 3 reading and notes template.

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.
 



Programming the Web 1

This week, students will dive into our fifth lesson of the year.  We will finally use the industry-standard program, DreamWeaver.  Through the use of this program, students will be able to use some shortcuts to make the HTML mark-up process quicker and easier.  This week, we will focus on how to use DreamWeaver to add images, specify sizes, and appropriately link them.