What's Going On? May 3rd through May 7th

 Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science A - EXAM ON THURSDAY MAY 6 

Our AP Exam will take place on Thursday, May 6th at noon.  Students will complete the exam in the Flexible Learning Space Room (FLS).  Students will need to bring pencils and pens to the exam.  Students should NOT bring cell phones, smart watches, or other electronic devices to the exam.

This week, we will focus on more review for the multiple-choice and free-response portion of the exam.  We will work through some released AP questions to make sure that we are ready to take on the APCSA exam!

App Development 2

This week, we will work more within the SpriteKit environment to learn about how to create games.  Our focus this week will be on how to create items through the GameScene.sks file (like Main.storyboard) and we will re-create the PONG game.  We will also spend some time this week talking about Agile Development theory when planning and completing large-scale projects.

Web 2

This week, students will focus on how to make a quiz using HTML and JavaScript.  Students will create a 6-question quiz that includes both multiple choice and short answer questions.  Through JavaScript, students will auto-grade the submitted responses and provide feedback.  Students will include this assignment as part of their portfolio website under the "JavaScript" tab.

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What's Going On? April 26th through April 30th

  Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science A

The AP Computer Science A exam is fast approaching.  Students enrolled in the exam will take it on Thursday, May 6 at 12:00 (noon) in the flexible learning space classroom in the 200 hallway.  This means we will spend the entire week reviewing for the AP Exam.  All students are expected to participate in the review as we are reviewing material covered throughout the course which will be helpful after the exam when we work on our final projects.

App Development 2

This week, students will wrap up their summative app challenge "Za Hunter".  In this app, students will find the user's current location, display it on a map, and search the surrounding area for pizza places.  Once this app is complete, we will move on to our last new unit for the year.  Students will create the "Ninja" hackwich.  This app demo will serve as an introduction to the "Game" mode available for app creation in XCode.

Web 2

This week, we will continue our study of JavaScript.  During class on Monday, students will have the opportunity to wrap up their JavaScript with Parameters code assignment.  In the middle of the week, students will add some JavaScript functionality to their previously-created "St. Mary's" form.  This assignment will be added to our Web 2 portfolio.  We will end the week by learning how to create a quiz within JavaScript.

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

 Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science A

This week, we will wrap up our final unit before we begin our review for the AP exam.  Monday's class will be devoted to wrapping up our 9th summative programming project (due Wednesday).  We will review on Tuesday and complete the summative during class on Wednesday.  We will end the week by starting our review for the AP exam.

App Dev 2

This week, we will take a look at the composition of functions (how we can get two classes to work together) and we will review how to access a user's location on a map.  We will wrap up the week by working on our summative end-of-unit app challenge, 'Za Hunter.  In this app, students will find a user's location, search the surrounding area for local pizza places, and display location information for each pizza place.

Web 2

The focus of this week will be JavaScript functions.  We will start the week by learning how to call a function and learn how to transfer control within a program.  Students will work with functions within a worksheet and in a short coding activity.  We will end the week by talking about functions that include parameters, or need additional information in order to complete their task.

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

 Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science A

We will start off this week by talking about two different searching algorithms: linear search and binary search.  We will also talk about the efficiency of algorithms in terms of "Big Oh" notation.  The rest of the week will be devoted to some programming assignments where students can put into practice everything that we have learned over the course of the unit, including recursion, sorting, and searching.

App Development 2

This week, students will investigate 'guard' statements, a way to prevent an app from crashing when we receive unexpected data.  We will then transition into learning about 'modal segues', or a view controller that briefly appears on top of another controller.  We will end the week with the modal segues code challenge.

Programming the Web 2

This week, we will continue our study of JavaScript.  We will start off the week by reviewing arrays and conditionals.  We will then move into our study of looping structures (how to repeat a section of code).  We will finish the week by discussing functions.