Waukesha North Computer Science: What's Going On? September 20th through September 24th

Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, our focus will be on wrapping up Activity 1.1.5, Run, Robot, Run.  In this activity, students will learn how to use commands and functions in order to get a "robot" to follow the path of a maze until it reaches its destination.  Once this is complete, we will turn our attention to completing Activity 1.1.6, Buggy Image.  In this activity, students will learn how to locate and fix errors in our code.  Students will also gain some practice assigning variables and working with arithmetic expressions.

App Development

This week, we will spend the majority of our time digging in deeper with variables, constants, and data types.  Students will complete a worksheet and work on a variables code challenge to become familiar with how to use variables.  Students will summarize their learning through our second technical blog post.  We will end the week by beginning our first summative end-of-unit app challenge, Hello World.  

Programming for the Web 1

This week, we will focus in on our third unit of the year.  Our focus is on additional HTML markup, including lists, address tags, and how to mark up specific sections of our page.  Along with this week, students should read chapter 5 in our textbook while completing the lesson 3 reading guide (due Tuesday).  Students will have two web assignments to complete: one that focuses on lists and another that focuses on how to mark up specific sections of our page.  We will wrap up the lesson by completing our ten multiple-choice questions.