What's Going On? Monday September 28th through Friday October 2, 2020

AP Computer Science A

This week, we will begin our unit 3 area of study where we will focus on "Implementing Classes".  Students will learn how to write their own classes and how to create instances of an object using their self-defined class.  Along with this week, students will have four different practice exercise sets in order to practice coding each day.

AP Registration Information

The deadline to register for the AP exam is November 6, 2020.  (After this date, it is still possible to register for the AP exam, but there is a $40 late fee.). The cost of the exam is $97.  The exam is scheduled for May and, at this time, is currently still scheduled to be a traditional AP exam.  Students will need to click the "Register" button within the AP Classroom website.  The exam can be paid for through this Total Registration link.

You can see the entire letter about the AP exam sent from North High School here.

Programming the Web 1

This week, we will start off the week by working on our Web Assignments 4A and 4B.  With these assignments, students will practice their skills in creating absolute, relative, and fragment links.  Students should turn in their lesson 4 reading guides on Monday.  Tuesday's homework will include preparing our answers for our multiple-choice summative.  Students are considered "on pace" for the class if, by the end of the day on Wednesday, the lesson 4 web assignments have been turned in and the lesson 4 review questions have been completed on Blackboard.  

On Thursday, we will begin our work with lesson 5.  In this lesson, we will switch to work with the industry-standard program "DreamWeaver".  Within this lesson, students will learn how to work with images and image maps.  At the end of the week, students should begin working on their lesson 5 reading guide and have it ready to turn in by Monday, October 5.

App Development 1

This week, students will spend our virtual days working more with variables.  Our activities with variables

will include working with Swift Playgrounds: Learn to Code 2 and working on application analysis through a Swift Variables worksheet.  Our time in class will be devoted to coding our summative end of unit app challenge: Hello World.

What's Going On? Monday September 20th through Friday September 24, 2020

 AP Computer Science A

This week, we will continue with our unit 2 study on introducing classes and defining variables.  Monday's WebEx meeting will be devoted to talking about Graphical Representations in Java.  The rest of the week will be application time for students while we work on Programming Project #2.  We will wrap up the week with our second summative assessment.

Programming the Web 1

We will begin this week during our virtual class on Monday by registering for our transcripted credit through WCTC.  Students who earn a "C" or higher based on the WCTC grading scale will earn FREE transcripted college credit.

Once students are registered we will be wrapping up Unit 3.  In this lesson, students are applying different list style tags and different section tags to create their web pages.  Students should turn in their Unit 3 reading guide on Monday.  We will complete our Unit 3 Summative multiple-choice assessment during our class on Tuesday and our Web Assignments (3a-List Types and 3b-Black Goose News) should be completed and submitted by the end of our class on Wednesday.

On Thursday, we will begin Unit 4 where we will focus on creating links within our webpage.  Along with this lesson, we will read chapter 6, complete the accompanying reading guide (due Monday 9/28), complete our multiple-choice summative assessment, and two web assignments.

App Development

This week, students will focus their attention at the beginning of the week diving into variables and constants.  During our class on Monday, students will participate in a WebEx teams meeting where we will go through our Variables and Constants Hackwich with our iPads.  Students will have the opportunity later in the week to work on a variables code challenge, summarize their thoughts in a technical blog post, and complete a short quiz.  We will wrap up the week by getting started with our first Summative End-Of-Unit App Challenge.  In the "Hello World" app, students will demonstrate their ability to add items to the storyboard of our app as well as make some changes within the code.

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What's Going On? Monday September 14th through Friday September 18, 2020

Please Note: All classes will have a "live" lesson within WebEx teams during our Monday scheduled class time.  Please use the WebEx teams app (available in Self Service on student iPads) to join the lesson!

AP Computer Science A

This week, we will begin our study of Objects, Classes, and Variables.  Students will learn about how to create an object, work with methods in a class, and begin working with variables.  Along with this week, students will have a reading guide to go along with our chapter textbook reading.  Additionally, students will have a couple of practice exercise sets to try out some of the programming skills that we will learn about over the course of the week.

App Development

We will start off this week with a group discussion of UIImage Views.  Students will work with the Swift Playgrounds app on our iPads to go through some code within the UIImageViews.playgroundbook file that will allow students to "play" with some code while we are away from the lab.  When we have time to code in the lab, we will focus on finishing up our "Buttons and Labels" code challenge as well as see how we can apply UIImageViews to our apps.  We will finish up the week by checking out variables and their role in a Swift app.

Programming the Web 1

We will start off this week with our first web page creation assignment.  Students will join in a live lesson on Monday through WebEx Teams to see how to start our Web Assignment 2A: Black Goose Bistro.  Students will use the tutorial in our textbook to work through the coding exercise to add in headlines, paragraphs of text, and images.  Students will also have the opportunity to work a little bit with styling the page using CSS.  Additionally, students will create their own personal web page with Web Assignment 2B.  We will have our lesson 2 summative review questions during class on Wednesday as well as turn in our web assignment.  We will end the week by diving into lesson 3 where we will learn about how to create lists and add additional HTML markup to our web pages.

What's Going On? September 8th through September 11th

 AP Computer Science A

This week, we will wrap our "Introduction to Java" unit.  Students will have Tuesday and Wednesday to complete our first programming assignment. Students will also participate in a variety of review activities prior to Friday's first summative assessment.

App Development 1

This week, students will continue our work within the Swift Programming language.  Students who are learning virtually for the day will focus in on our playground readings for the topic and view a brief video.  Students who are learning face to face for the day will have a hands-on coding activity to complete.  Our topics for the week will include creating actions & outlets.

Programming the Web 1

This week, students will wrap up our work with lesson 1.  We will spend our first face to face class of the week finishing up Project 1A (summative) where we investigate the different layout techniques used in creating web sites.  Toward the beginning of this week, students will be wrapping up our first lesson reading guide and multiple-choice assessment (summative).  Later on, we will move on to our second lesson reading assignment and dive into our first web page creation.