What's Going On? January 4 through January 8, 2021

 

Happy New Year!

Welcome back, everyone!  I hope you had some time to rest, relax, and recharge during your time over break and that you are ready to get back into the swing of things!

Coming Soon....Semester Exams

AP Computer Science A

This week, we will start our study of unit 7 where we will focus on Arrays and ArrayLists.  Basically, these items will allow us to save and retrieve lots of data with a single variable.  Monday's class will be devoted to watching a couple of videos put together by the AP board about arrays and students will summarize their learning in a "one-
pager" assignment.  Throughout the rest of the week, we will talk about how to use arrays and we will have a couple of coding opportunities to put our knowledge to the test.

App Development 1

This week, we will continue our work with apps that have multiple screens.  We will start off the week with a self-paced video with a reflection.  For the rest of the week, we will dive into some of the readings about different screens, how we can navigate between them, and Strings.  Students will also have a hackwich and a few demos to work through within the week.

Programming the Web 1

This week, students will continue their work on Web Assignment 14A, where we are creating the sub-pages for the "Clear Reflections Photography" site.  Toward the end of the week, we will talk about how we can host our pages live online, rather than only viewing them on our individual devices.

What's Going On? December 21st and December 22nd

 Thought for the Week

Schedule for the Week

***NOTE: 

Monday:

• There is no AE on Monday
• all students will be learning virutally on Monday

Tuesday:

• Cohort 1 will attend school face-to-face
• Cohort 2 will attend school virtually

AP Computer Science A

This week, students will choose a chapter to read from the "Blown to Bits" book, available as a PDF.  Students will then answer the reflection questions associated with the chosen chapter.  This is all in preparation for our class discussion that will take place during class on Tuesday about ethics and some of the implications associated with computing.

App Development 1

This week, students will wrap up our pre-unit hackwich, "Intergalactic Travel".  In this hackwich, students will learn how to make multiple screens on an app and pass data from one screen to the next.  This is a formative hackwich that will be turned in to Google Classroom by the end of our class on Tuesday.

Programming the Web 1

This week, students will work on Web Assignment 14A as well as complete our lesson 14 review questions during our class on Tuesday.  We will continue our work with Web Assignment 14A after our winter break.  When we return, we will learn how to host our sites live online.

Have a great winter break!!!!

 

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

Thought for the Week

Planning Ahead: December 21st and December 22nd

Due to our two-day week, we will follow a modified schedule on Monday (12/21/2020) and Tuesday (12/22/2020).  All students will meet virtually on Monday.  On this Monday, we will skip our AE/Homeroom class period.  On Tuesday, cohort 1 will meet face-to-face and cohort 2 and virtual students will all meet via WebEx Teams.

Semester Exam Schedule

AP Computer Science A

This week, students will work on our unit 6 programming project, complete our review exercise set, and our practice test in order to prepare for our unit 6 summative on Friday.  Students are encouraged to reach out in class or in WebEx teams with any questions.

App Development 1

This week, students will start our end-of-unit app challenge, Tip Calculator.  For this summative project, students will create an app that might be handy when going to a restaurant.  Students will create an app that will calculate a tip and can also customize it to split the check when going out to eat with friends.  I have scheduled a minimum of three class days for students to work on this app.  I will check in with students at the end of our second work day to determine how much time will be required.  

Programming the Web 1

At the start of this week, students will have time to display their knowledge of how to properly format images for a web page by completing our Web Assignment 13a: The Clear Reflections home page.  Students will also complete our lesson 13 review questions during class on Wednesday.  After that, we will start talking about how to put our finished pages live online.

What's Going On? December 7th through December 11th

  Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science A

This week, students will continue our study of loops. During class on Monday, students will have the opportunity to work with Strings and for loops.  Later in the week, we will explore the 'do while' loops, sentinel values, common looping algorithms, and nested loops.

App Development

We will start off this week by checking in on our understanding of conditionals, or if...else statements.  Students will take Monday's class to summarize their learning of conditionals in a technical blog post.  For the rest of the week, students will investigate gesture recognizers via a reading assignment, a class-led hackwich, and a coding challenge.

Programming the Web 1

During class on Monday, students will wrap up our notes on responsive web design.  Students will then have Tuesday's and Wednesday's class to complete Web Assignment 11A, a tutorial-based assignment from our textbook on how to create a webpage that incorporates the properties of responsiveness.  Along with this week, students should complete their reading guides by Tuesday and we will have our lesson 11 review questions (multiple choice) during class on Wednesday.  During our class two class periods for the week, students will learn about how to properly format images for the web by using Photoshop.