What's Going On? October 18th through October 22nd

 Thought for the Week

Parent-Teacher Conferences Wednesday

Parent-teacher conferences will take place this week on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 in the field house.  Conferences will run from 5-7pm.  Please stop by!

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will begin on our second unit of the year.  In this unit, we will dive into the concept of "abstraction".  We will also spend more time focusing on how to write and call custom functions as well as how to work with global variables.  This week, students will have two formative projects to work on.  For these projects, students will be introduced to some basic game development concepts with our "Catch a Turtle" and "Catch a Turtle Leaderboard" activities.

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 1

Our focus for this week in App Development will be Text Fields.  During Monday's class, students will work through our Playgroundbook reading in order to learn about and work with text fields.  We will also watch one of Wade's videos about how to work with text fields.  On Tuesday, we will do a class formative demo about the different ways to work with text fields.  We will finish off the week with our UITextField Code Challenge.  For this activity, students will have the opportunity to work on their own and with small teams to investigate how to get and use user input within text fields.

Programming the Web 1

Monday's class will be devoted to wrapping up our work on our lesson 6 web assignments.  We will complete our summative lesson 6 review questions at the beginning of class on Tuesday.  For the rest of the week, we will investigate colors and backgrounds.  Along with this lesson, students will read chapter 13 in our textbook and complete the accompanying reading guide.  We will also have three tutorial-style assignments from the textbook to complete to learn about how to apply colors and backgrounds to a web page.