What's Going On? March 18th through March 22nd

App Development 1

This week, students will continue their work on our second end-of-unit-app-challenge, Multiply.  For this app, students will need to read in two numbers from the app user, multiply them together, and display the result.  Students can build onto this "MVP" project by displaying a picture based on the result of the math problem.  Students can also turn this project into a basic calculator by adding in addition, subtraction and division operations.  Students will also have the opportunity to write their second technical blog post.  For this post, students will choose one topic from our unit to explain either in written form or through a screencast demo walking through how we can use one feature we learned about in our unit.






App Development 2

This week, we will continue to focus on MapKit and CoreLocation.  Students will focus on how to determine a user's location and how to perform a "natural language query" search in order to find specific items near a user's current location.  This will set us up to complete our end-of-unit-app-challenge, 'Za Hunter.








AP Computer Science A

This week, we will start our last unit prior to our AP Exam.  We will focus on chapters 13 and 14 from our Big Java textbook to learn about Recursion, Searching and Sorting.  This week, we will specifically focus on recursion.  This is the process of a method calling itself.  For the AP exam, students will need to know how to read and interpret recursive method calls, but will not be required to write a recursive method.

Programming the Web 1

This week, we will focus on lesson 7 where we continue our look at CSS.  Specifically, we will focus on modifying colors and backgrounds on our web pages.  Along with this week, students will need to complete our lesson 7 reading guide by Thursday and complete our lesson 7 review questions during class on Friday.  Students will also have three webpages to complete in order to practice our skill of modifying colors and backgrounds.  Students are considered "on pace" for the class if all of lesson 7 is uploaded by the end of class on Friday.