What's Going On? October 3rd through October 7th

 Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science Principles

We will start off this week by learning about lists and how we can use a for loop to help us iterate more efficiently through a list.  We will work within Activity 1.1.7 to create lists of turtle objects.  We will use a for loop that works with each object in our list and modifies it to create a drawing.  In Activity 1.1.8, students will be introduced to decision-making structures.  Students will play with the if...elif...else structure in order to make decisions during the run time of our code.

App Development

This week, we will start our second unit of the year.  Students will start off Monday's class with a pre-unit hackwich called "Display a Number".  We will then spend some time talking about design choices that we can make when creating our app and why we are able to so easily navigate through a new app that we can download from the Apple App Store.  We will finish the week by learning about operators (math) and how they can be used to enhance our program.

Programming the Web 1

We will start off this week by wrapping up unit 4, where we learned how to create links within our websites.  Next, we will talk about how we can add images and image maps within our sites. This marks the week that we will switch over to the program "DreamWeaver".  This is an industry-standard program that professional web designers use in order to create robust web sites.