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

App Development 1

This week, we will continue our study of functions.  Students will start off the week by finishing up our formative "Functions Challenge".  We will also see a multiple choice quiz so we can make sure we have a firm foundation of what is happening when we define and use functions.  Once we have wrapped up our "Functions Challenge", we will dive into conditional statements.  That is, how to determine if a variable meets certain requirements.  While talking about conditionals, we will discuss if...else statements and switch statements.



App Development 2

This week, we will continue our study of Sprite Kit while we create our "Ninja Hiya!" game.  For this game, we will learn how to add sprites, or characters, to our game.  We will also learn how to create animation so that our "enemies" are coming from random places and have random behavior.  Time permitting, we will also investigate some physics in order to detect collisions.


AP Computer Science A

This week, we will talk about searching algorithms.  Specifically, we will focus on linear search and binary search.  We will also analyze the efficiency of both algorithms.  Students will also complete practice exercise set #3 and review exercise set #3 in order to work with these searching techniques.  Once this is complete, students will begin work on our summative programming project #9.

Programming the Web

This week is Midterm week!  There will be two parts to this midterm exam: a 20 question multiple

choice test and a web site.  For the multiple choice questions, students will be working from the pool of the 80 multiple choice questions that we have seen so far this semester.  For this assessment, students will not be permitted to use any resources.  For the web site creation, students will have all class periods this week to work to duplicate our the website.  For this portion, students may use old assignments, our textbook, and Google in order to complete the assignment.  All websites must be uploaded by the end of class on Friday.

End of the Year Schedule