What's Going On? December 10th through December 14th

App Development

This week, students will complete our "Intergalactic Travel" hackwich where we will practice creating multiple screens and passing information between them.  Once this is complete, students will work on our end of unit app called "Word Play".  This app is similar to "Mad-Libs".  The app will prompt for an adjective, noun, and verb and insert the provided information into a story.






Programming the Web

This week, students will continue to work on web assignment 12.  For this assignment, students will need to format photos appropriately for the web.  Once the photos have been formatted, students will create the "home page" for the website we will be building over the next two weeks.  Additionally, students will need to complete their reading guides by Wednesday and the lesson 12 review questions during class on Thursday.




AP Computer Science

This week, students will spend time on Monday finishing up programming project 6 where we focus
on how to incorporate loops in order to repeat a section of code.  Students should be working on our review exercises and turn them into Google Classroom by the start of class on Tuesday.  Once this is complete, students will begin work on our first lab: Magpie.  For this assignment, students will practice interacting with existing code in order to create a chatbot program.  Students will read in a user's input and design the program to respond appropriately to the input based on keywords.  Students should finish up the lab by the end 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.



January Exam Schedule

For those of you who like to plan ahead, here is our exam schedule for January.  We will talk in detail about the exam as we get closer to the end of the semester.