What's Going On? October 26th through October 28th

Modified Schedule for the Week

As you may be aware, this is a shortened week where students will have scheduled classes Monday - Wednesday, with Wednesday as an early-release day.  Due to the shortened week, students will meet with all 8 classes each day.  Monday will be our digital learning day, on Tuesday we will be face-to-face with school starting at 7:55 and on Wednesday we will be face-to-face with school starting at 7:35 and our last class dismissed at 12:10.

 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.

Also, please note that there is a rule this year that will allow students to cancel an exam and receive a refund. 

AP Computer Science A

This week, we will be wrapping up our fourth unit on Fundamental Data Types.  Students will have Monday's virtual class to work on our summative review.  During our scheduled class period on Tuesday, students will complete the assessment through Blackboard.  

App Development 1

During Monday's virtual class, students will summarize their learning of Textfields in a technical blog post.  Students will also view the UIView video in order to prepare for Tuesday's class.  On Tuesday, we will work through the UIView.playgroundbook activity together to learn about views and see how to manipulate them through code.  We will also talk about how to organize our app's design by using constraints and stack views.  We will end the week by completing our UIView Hackwich.

Programming the Web 1

This week, students will be wrapping up our lesson 8.  On Monday, students should turn in their completed reading guides.  On Tuesday, students will complete their lesson 8 review questions (summative) and turn in Web Assignment 8A (summative) which is a tutorial-based assignment from our textbook.  As a class on Wednesday, students will do a review to prepare for our midterm project.  Students who would like to turn in missing work from the first half of the course must have it turned in by Monday, November 2.

What's Going On? October 19th through October 23rd

School Schedule for the Week

As you know, this week is the first week that we will come together for four days per week for face-to-face instruction.  Monday will remain as a virtual learning day.  Our virtual learning day for Monday, October 19th can be asynchronous.  This means that students will have some flexibility on when their learning will take place with their computer science class for the day.  The assignment for the day is posted on Blackboard.  Students can complete the assignment at any point throughout the day.  I will be available for questions and individual help within WebEx teams throughout the morning.  

Here is the schedule that we will follow for the week:

 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.

AP Computer Science A

On Monday, students will spend some extra time focusing on compound assignment operators and casting.  For this assignment, students will log into AP Classroom to view the content videos and complete the two check-in quizzes.  For the rest of the week, students will work on Programming Project #4 which will allow students to put into practice the concepts that we have learned about throughout our fourth unit of the year.  This programming project will be due on Tuesday, October 27th.  Students will also complete our unit 4 review exercises that allow students to reflect on the underlying concepts of the unit.  These review exercises are due on Thursday.

App Development 1

This week, students will focus on working with UITextFields.  During our virtual class on Monday, students will watch the UITextFields video and complete a short check-in quiz.  On Tuesday, students will go through a demo assignment to work through how to add text fields to our apps as a class.  For the rest of the week, students will work on a UITextField code challenge and work independently with this item.

Programming the Web 1

For the beginning of the week, students will work on lesson 7 where we experiment with changing colors and background images using CSS.  Students will have Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday to work on Web Assignments 7A, 7B, and 7C.  These three assignments are tutorial-based and instructions can be found in our textbook.  Students will complete our lesson 7 review questions (summative) and turn in our lesson 7 web assignments by the end of class on Thursday.  On Friday, we will dive into lesson 8 where we talk about the "Box Model" associated with web development.

What's Going On? October 12th through October 16th

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.

AP Computer Science A

This week, we will begin our work on our fourth unit where we will focus on the different ways we can store and interact with numbers.  For our asynchronous class on Monday, students will work with our AP Classroom site and view the four short videos related to variables and expressions.  Students will have two short quizzes to complete prior to Tuesday's class in order for me to check our level of understanding on the topics.  Students will have four practice exercise sets to complete throughout the week, as it is important to code a little bit each day.  We also have our reading assignment and the accompanying reading guide to complete by Friday of this week.

App Development

This week, students will spend the majority of our time working with operators.  That means, applying some basic math functions within our apps.  For Monday's class, students will watch our WebEx Team Meeting Video and complete a short practice assignment within the Swift Playgrounds app.  Students will complete a code challenge on Tuesday and Wednesday.  On Thursday, students will summarize their learning with a technical blog post and a formative multiple-choice assessment.  We will wrap up the week by taking a look at textfields.

Programming the Web 1

Students will start off the week by working on web assignments 6B and 6C.  Both of these assignments are tutorials taken from our textbook.  For Monday's assignment, students should view the video lesson on how to get started with assignment 6B and complete the tutorial.  Our lesson 6 reading guide should also be turned in on Monday.  Students should start pre-planning their answers for our summative multiple-choice questions on Tuesday.  On Wednesday, students should upload their completed lesson 6 web assignments and complete the 10 multiple-choice question assessment on Blackboard.  At the end of the week, students will begin working on lesson 7 where we will investigate how to add colors and background images to our web pages using CSS.

What's Going On? Monday October 5th through Friday October 9th

AP Computer Science A

This week, students will spend some time working with our unit 3 content on implementing classes by completing our summative programming project #3 (due Friday).  Students will have work time during our classes on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to complete this project.  For homework, students will have our review exercises due on Wednesday and our summative review due on Friday.  During this week, we will also do a short check-in with a few AP-style multiple-choice questions related to our unit.  We will wrap up the week by taking our unit 3 summative on Friday.

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 5A and 5B.  With these assignments, students will practice their skills in adding images, image links, and image maps.  Students should turn in their lesson 5 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 5 web assignments have been turned in and the lesson 5 review questions have been completed on Blackboard.  

On Thursday, we will begin our work with lesson 6.  At this point in the semester, we have learned about pretty much all of the HTML tags we will need.  It is now time to focus on style.  Within this lesson, students will learn how to change the look of their pages using CSS.  At the end of the week, students should begin working on their lesson 6 reading guide and have it ready to turn in by Monday, October 12.

App Development

It is my hope that this week, students will have access to our XCode program via our MacInCloud environment.  Students have been given logins to access a Mac computer virtually while we are learning away from school.  Due to this access, I will begin teaching lessons synchronously.  This means that students can log in during our regularly scheduled class time and be a part of the lesson.   This week, we will start off with a "pre-unit hackwich" to introduce a few of the concepts that students will be studying throughout our "Multiply" unit. Later in the week, we will take a look at some of the things that go into designing an app as well as the process for developing an algorithm.  We will wrap up the week by checking out operators.  In other words, how we can do some basic math calculations within our code.