What's Going On? March 1st through March 5th

Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science A

Now that we have learned about the basics of Class Design, Inheritance, and Interfaces, it is time to put our knowledge to the test!  This week, students will be working on our summative programming project #8 where we will put our unit knowledge into practice.  We will end the week by reviewing the unit in preparation for Monday's summative assessment.

App Dev 2

This week, we will continue on with our "Assignment Notebook" unit.  We will focus on writing classes, delegation, and how to use a TableView to display data.  All of these items will help students in creating their summative app, Assignment Notebook.

Programming the Web 2

We will start off this week by finishing up our second summative for the semester.  For this summative, students will add a second page to their portfolio website to demonstrate some of the techniques that can be used to display images in an image gallery.  During the second half of the week, students will learn how to display data using a table.

What's Going On? February 22nd through February 25th

Thought for the Week

Modified Schedule This Week

This week, students will have a shortened day on Thursday and no school on Friday.  Because of this, the rest of the week will see a modified schedule.  This means that Monday will be a "Tuesday-style" schedule, Tuesday will be a "Wednesday-style" schedule, Wednesday will be a "Thursday-style" schedule and Thursday will be a shortened "Friday-style" schedule.

AP Computer Science A

We will start off our shortened week by talking about Interfaces and how we can implement an interface to make sure that all of our classes are implementing the correct methods.  Tuesday's class will be focused on the Comparable Interface, and we will end the week by talking about Event Handlers and Mouse Events.

App Development 2

We will start off the week by wrapping up our "Rock, Paper, Scissor" summative app.  After that, we will spend the rest of the week working on the "Shopping List" Pre-Unit hackwich which will get us acquainted with some of the tools we will be using in the next unit.

Programming the Web 2

The focus of this short week will be our image gallery and learning to implement some techniques to format images. We will spend Monday's class learning about some techniques and the rest of the week will be devoted to student work time to format their own 10-picture image gallery to include within their portfolio site.

What's Going On? February 15th through February 19th

 Thought for the Week

Conferences this Wednesday

I still have a few open spots available for conferences this Wednesday.  Conferences will take place via our video conferencing software, WebEx.  If you would be interested in scheduling a conference, please sign up for one of the available time spots.

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AP Computer Science A

This week, we will start our 8th unit of the year.  This week, we will focus on what makes a good class and how we can make sure that we are designing our classes with programming best practices in mind.  At the end of the week, we will focus on the use of Interfaces to make sure that our classes are aligned with proper programming protocol.

App Development 2

At the beginning of this week, we will spend some time exploring how to incorporate Safari Services and the camera within our apps.  At the end of the week, students will dive into our first summative app project of the semester, Rock, Paper, Scissors.  Students will create the game to play against the computer and have the ability to customize the game to make it more user-interactive.

Programming the Web 2

For the majority of this week, students will work on wrapping up their portfolio home page.  Monday's class will give students the opportunity to show off their pages and get feedback from other students.  On Tuesday, students will make final adjustments before we host our pages online during Thursday's class.  We will wrap up the week by looking at some techniques for formatting images for our "Image Gallery" unit.

What's Going On? February 8th through February 12th

 Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science A

This week, students will work on our first lab of the year.  This 'Consumer Review Lab' will give students a chance to examine and work within a larger body of code.  Students will spend some time figuring out how to interpret the code and will have the opportunity to add their own!  The focus of this lab is to use programming to examine the words written in a consumer review that someone might post on a site like Yelp or Trip Advisor.  At the end of the week, we will start our 8th unit on Classes, Interfaces, and Inheritance.

App Dev 2

This week, students will spend some time working with loops.  Loops allow us to repeat a portion of code and will also allow us to examine all of the elements within a collection.  We will spend Monday's class reading about loops and completing our class-led 'hackwich'.  Students will work with our lab on Tuesday and on the Code Challenge (formative) during class on Wednesday and Thursday.  We will end the week with a short multiple-choice formative within our Blackboard site.

Programming the Web 2

We will start off this week wrapping up Friday's lesson on navigation techniques.  We will spend time on Tuesday talking about how to design a logo for our portfolio site that we will use to highlight our work throughout the semester.  The rest of the week will be used by students to design and create their portfolio site home page.