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

Sign up For Conferences: Wednesday, November 17th

Our next opportunity for parent-teacher conferences is on Wednesday, November 17th.  These conferences are available by appointment only.  Please click on the link below to sign up for a time slot.

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Thought for the Week

How would you classify your mindset?

AP Computer Science Principles

Monday's class will be devoted to wrapping up Activity 1.2.4: Turtle Escape.  In this project, students will use loops and conditionals in order to create the drawing of a maze that includes doors and barriers.  Students will also add a game piece that is controllable pressing keys on the keyboard.

Once this activity is complete, students will move into our summative activity 1.2.5: Shall We Play A Game?  In this activity, students will design and implement a game that demonstrates their ability to use loops, lists, key presses, functions, along with some other elements that we have worked with over the course of the year so far.  When students are done with the summative, they will create a brief video and answer some reflection questions.  This is the second opportunity for students to practice making the "Create" task that we will submit to the AP board as part of our AP score in May.

App Development

We will spend the majority of this week focused on functions.  In programming, we can use functions to make our code more efficient.  Anytime that we find ourselves copying and pasting code from one place to another, it would be best to write a function.  This week, we will learn about the make up of functions, write our own custom functions, and work on our functions code challenge.  We will end this week by talking about the scope of variables.

Web 1

The first half of the week will be spent on finishing up our midterm assignment.  All midterms must be completed and turned in by the end of class on Tuesday.  After this, we will move on to lesson 9.  In this lesson, we will talk about how we can modify the "flow of control", or how items are placed on our webpage.  We will be able to modify the placement of text and images through "floating" and through "absolute positioning".  Along with this lesson, students will read chapter 15 from our textbook and complete the accompanying reading guide.  We will complete two tutorial-style assignments to demonstrate our ability to use the float and absolute positioning property.  We will end the lesson with our multiple-choice questions.