What's Going On? February 24th through February 28th

Early Release: February 28th

On Friday, students will have an early release day. We will meet with our usual Friday classes, but for a shortened period of time. Our last class ends at 12:05. After that, students are welcome to stay at school for lunch or leave the building. The busses will leave school at 1:12.

Programming the Web 1

This week, we will dive into lesson 5.  For this lesson, we will focus on adding images with the appropriate attributes and how to create an image map for our pages.  Along with this week, students will need to read chapters 7 and 10 and complete the accompanying reading guide.  The reading guide will be due on Thursday.  Students will have two website assignments to complete for the week and we will complete our ten multiple-choice questions during our shortened class period on Friday.  Part of our discussion this week is on "Image Maps".  This is a concept that is not covered in the textbook reading so it is very important that students take notes and complete our sample demo in class.  This lesson also marks the point where we will transition to using the Adobe DreamWeaver software to create our webpages.  

Programming the Web 2

This week, we will turn our focus to learning some different techniques to display an "Image Gallery".  For the first two class days of the week, we will investigate some different tools together.  For the last two days of the week, students will work on creating their own Image Gallery to include on their portfolio site.

App Dev 2

This week, we will spend Monday's class wrapping up our "Assignment Notebook" summative app.  Then we will move into investigating MapKit.  We will start with a formative hackwich called "Mobile Mapper" that will give us an overview of the unit.  We will then move into studying "Optionals" which refers t whether or not a variable has data in it.   

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will begin work on their AP "Create" performance task.  This task makes up 24% of the overall AP score and must be submitted to the College Board by April 30th.  Per College Board guidelines, I will be giving students 12 hours of class time to work on this task.  Students will be responsible to writing code for a program and writing an analysis of the design process and the algorithms involved within the app.  Students may work in pairs or individually on the project.  If a student is working as part of a team, each team member must be able to identify the parts of the code completed individually.  Students may not collaborate on the responses to the writing prompts.  Students may not consult with each other on their code and cannot get specific feedback from outside sources on their work.  However, students may use resources and would be allowed to include a portion of code written by someone else, provided that the code is cited.  Complete instructions and helpful resources can be found on our Google Classroom site.