What's Going On? February 11th through February 15th

App Development 1


This week, we will continue with our intro unit to programming in Swift.  Students will spend Monday's class finishing up our "Variables Challenge" formative assignment.  During class on Tuesday, students will take a formative assessment on variables and choose a topic for their blog post from the unit.  Students can choose from the following topics:

• Actions and Outlets
• Image Views
• Variables
• How to add information to a label

We will spend the rest of the week working on our end of unit app challenge, "Hello World".  For this summative app, students will demonstrate their knowledge of creating a storyboard and making changes to our app in the coding file.  

App Development 2

This week, we will continue our study of TableViews.  We will spend Monday's class working on "Bar Button Items".  We will explore this in order to add items to our Table Views.  Next, we will move into "Persistence".  We will explore how UserDefaults can save data in between app openings.  Students will participate in a Persistence challenge to demonstrate their knowledge on this.

AP Computer Science A

This week, we will wrap up our seventh unit on arrays.  During class on Monday, we will review for our summative assessment.  Students should complete the summative assessment review in order to prepare for our test.  Students will complete our summative during class on Tuesday.  Our summative "Picture Lab" will also be due on this day. 

Once our summative is complete, we will move into unit 8 where we will focus on Class Design, Inheritance, and Interfaces.  Along with this unit, we will look at chapters 8, 9, and 10 in our Big Java textbook.  We will spend the remaining part of this week focusing on chapter 8 and how to more efficiently write methods and classes.

Programming the Web

During class on Monday, students will wrap up our work for lesson 2.  Students are considered "on pace" for the class, if by the end of Monday, students have uploaded projects 2A (Black Goose Bistro), 2B (Fix the Errors), and 2C (Personal Webpage).  Once we have finished lesson 2, we will move into our next lesson where we will focus on additional ways to markup text.  We will talk about how to make lists, mark up quotes, and divide up our webpage into different parts.  Students will need to read chapter 5 and complete the accompanying reading guide by Thursday.  Students will also have 10 multiple choice questions (summative) during class on Friday.  We will also have three web page projects to complete throughout the week to demonstrate our knowledge of HTML tags.