What's Going On? November 28th through December 2nd

 Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will work on two different items.  First, students will work on finishing up their "Character Quiz" where we put into practice our ability to write and call custom functions.  Once we have wrapped this up, we will take a look at past submissions of Create task projects to the AP board.  Students will learn how to craft a response in order to get the maximum score for the project.  Students will learn about the elements to be sure to include as well as common errors in crafting responses.  If there is enough time, students will then prepare to work on a second practice create task where we play a simple card game.

App Development

We will start off this week by summarizing what we know about conditionals with a techincal blog post. Once this is complete, we will learn about several "gestures" that can be used to interact with our app such as tapping, swiping, and dragging our finger across the screen.

Programming the Web

This week, students will be introduced to the concept of responsive web design.  Students will learn how to write a "media query" to determine the size of the browser screen (desktop, tablet, or phone) and write an appropriate set of styles to make the website look the best on the device.  Along with this week, students will read a chapter in our textbook, complete the reading guide, and answer 10 multiple-choice review questions.  Students will also complete web assignment 12A where we follow along with the textbook tutorial to create a sample responsive site.