What's Going On? October 14th through October 18th

Parent-Teacher Conferences This Week!

This is a reminder that we will hold parent-teacher conferences this week on Wednesday, October 16th from 5:00-7:00pm in the fieldhouse.  Please stop by!





App Development

This week, students will focus on adding text fields to our apps.  Students will learn how to get a value out of a text field and how to use it somewhere else in the program.  This will help us prepare for our summative end-of-unit app challenge, Multiply, where students will learn to make a very basic calculator.  Along with this week, students will complete a text field code challenge and create a new technical blog post highlighting our new-found knowledge of how to work with text fields.

AP Computer Science Principles

Last week we worked on analyzing sample student submissions for the APCSP "Create" Performance

Task.  Now that we know what type of responses the AP board is looking for, we will attempt our own summative "Create" task using MIT App Inventor.  Students will work on creating a simple app of their own design, create a short 1-minute video highlighting the features of the app, and write some reflection questions about the program as well the design process.

Programming the Web 1

This week, students will spend the first part of the week working on our lesson 6 web assignments.  Students have three tutorial-based lessons from the textbook to work on in order to practice their skill of adding style to a web page document.  Once this is done, we will spend the rest of the week focusing on adding images and colors to the background of our pages as well as modifying the features of our links.