What's Going On? December 6th through December 10th

 Thought for the Week

Hour of Code Opportunity

The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries.  Join us to learn a little bit about the growing field of computer science on Wednesday, December 8th in room 300.  See Mrs. Kamenar if you have any questions!

AP Computer Science Principles

This week we will continue our study of Cybersecurity.  Students will complete an activity where we talk about encryption and how we can safely send information through the internet.  We will end the week by reading about how how to increase password strength and multi-factor authentication.

App Development 1

This week, our primary focus will be on Gesture Recognizers.  We will learn how to respond to a tap, double tap, and some of the other gestures we might use on the screen of our phone.  Students will also have a technical blog post to summarize their learning of conditionals.

Programming the Web 1

The majority of this week will be focused on lesson 11, where we learn some more layout techniques using CSS.  For this week, students will be responsible for completing our lesson 11 Mt. Olympus web page.