What's Going On? February 25th through March 1st

Modified Schedule This Week

This week, students will have a modified schedule due to our early release day on Friday.  Students will follow a "Tuesday" schedule on Monday, a "Wednesday" schedule on Tuesday, a "Thursday" schedule on Wednesday, and "Friday" schedule on Thursday.  On Friday, we will run a modified "purple" schedule where students will see all of their classes, with the exception of AE.



App Development 1

This week, students will dive into our second unit of the year.  We will begin the week by focusing on textfields to our app and we will learn about some of the features associated with them.  For example, we will learn how tapping into a textfield will allow our device's keyboard to appear.  We will also learn how to dismiss the keyboard.  Students will some time this week working on our "textfield challenge" in order to practice our new skills.
adding UIViews to our apps.  After this, we will focus in on adding



App Development 2

This week, we will finish up our pre-unit app "Shopping List".  Once this is complete, students will have much of the remaining part of the week to work on our end of unit app challenge, "Assignment Notebook".  Students will also need to make sure that their technical blog post for the unit has been posted about a topic of their choice from the unit.  This would include how to use a picker, a table view, collection views, how to write a class, or any other topic from the unit.




AP Computer Science A

This week, students will continue our work on our eighth unit of the year.  We will specifically focus on chapter 9 in our Big Java textbook which covers Inheritance.  Students will work on examining and writing relationships between classes.  We will focus on superclasses and subclasses and how methods are implemented and interpreted.  Along with this week, students will work on Practice Exercise Set #2 and Review Exercise Set #2.  These assignments will be due by March 4th.  As a reminder, our Practice Exercise Set #1 and Review Exercise Set #1 from last week must be submitted to Google Classroom by Tuesday, February 26th to be considered for grading.


Programming the Web 1

This week, we will continue our work with lesson 4 which focuses on links.  Students will have the chance to work on web assignments 4a, 4b, and 4c in order to practice writing absolute, relative, e-mail and fragment links.  Along with this week, students will need to read chapter 6 from our textbook and complete the accompanying reading guide by the beginning of class on Wednesday.  We will complete our 10 multiple choice questions at the beginning of class on Thursday.  Students are considered "on pace" for the class if all assignments through lesson 4 have been submitted by Thursday's class.