What's Going On? October 11th through October 15th

  Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will have three class days to work on their first summative of the year.  For this project, students will demonstrate their understanding of Python variables, loops, arrays, and conditionals while creating some sort of art algorithm using the Turtle platform.  This is the first of several practice "Create" tasks that students will complete in preparation for the official "Create" task that students will need to complete for submission to the AP board as part of their AP exam score.  We will wrap up the week by starting lesson 1.2 on "Abstraction".  In the first activity for this lesson, students will focus on how to write and read functions in Python.

AP Exam Information:

At this point, all students should be enrolled in our class through the AP Classroom platform.  This platform is a great resource for instructional videos and practice exam questions that will prepare us for the AP exam in May.

The deadline for registering for the AP exam is November 8th.  After that, students may enroll in the AP exam but there will be a $40 late fee.  Please check out the following document for information on how to sign up for the exam:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YF-fAy1T99rqGxQk9UkqIcpEqeWwFQxUVza40a6j3k4/edit?usp=sharing

App Development

The majority of this week will be devoted to our study of operators.  In other words, how do we get an app to do mathematical calculations?  We will spend Monday and Tuesday's classes working on the "Operators Code Challenge".  On Thursday, we will summarize what we learned through a technical blog post.  We will end the week by diving into Textfields.

Programming the Web 1

Monday's class will be devoted to wrapping up our lesson 5 web assignments and catching up on any missing assignments.  After this, we will dive into our sixth unit of study.  In this unit, students will read chapters 11 and 12 and complete our accompanying reading guide.  Along with this week, students will also have ten multiple-choice questions to answer. We will also have three tutorial-based web assignments to complete from our textbook.