Thought for the Week
AP Computer Science Principles
We will start off this week by wrapping up Activity 1.1.2: Planning a Picture. We will then move on to Activity 1.1.3: Fun with Flowers. Both of these activities provide students with an introduction to programming in Python using "Turtle". Students are learning how to create simple drawings using Turtle methods in the Python language. Students are learning how to create and access variables, as well as get some input from the user. We will end the week with some introduction to AP Classroom. Students will start to become familiar with some of the multiple-choice questions they can expect to see on the AP Exam in May.
For the majority of our week, we will focus on "Actions and Outlets". Students will spend some time working on implementing Actions and Outlets in our first code challenge. Students may work together and collaborate as they work or may choose to work independently. Students will also put what they have learned into words with our first blog post of the year. We will end the week learning about how to add images to our apps.
Programming the Web 1
This week, we will finally get to make a web page! We will work within our text editor, Text Edit, in order to create our first web page from scratch using HTML. Along with this week, students will read chapter 4 in our textbook and complete the accompanying reading guide. Students will complete two web assignments. For assignment 2A: Black Goose Bistro, students will follow a step-by-step tutorial to create a sample restaurant home page. For assignment 2B: Personal Web Page, students will create their own page that features some information about them. We will wrap up the week by completing our ten multiple-choice questions.
As a reminder, this course is offered in partnership with WCTC. This means that students who have enrolled in this option and successfully complete the course with a "C" or higher based on the WCTC grading scale will earn free transcripted credit.
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