What's Going On? December 19th through December 22nd

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AP Computer Science Principles

We will start off this week by wrapping up our card game assessment.  After further discussion in class, it seems like this project is best if we value it as a summative.  For this assessment, students will be graded under two major learning targets: Writing Code and Analyzing Code via our responses.  This card game project serves as our final practice attempt for the AP Create Performance task that students will be submitting to the AP board and will account for 30% of the AP score.  During the last part of the week, we will finish up the diagnostic test from our "5 Steps to a 5" book to see what knowledge we have gained and help us to pinpoint areas for further study.

App Development

During this week, students will investigate segues and navigation controllers a little further.  Students will also have some time to experiment with our Tello Drones.  Students will program via block-based code in order to demonstrate their understanding of variables, functions, and loops.

Programming the Web

This week, students make sure that they have correctly hosted their "Clear Reflections Photography" sites.  After we check to make sure that our sites are live and visible to all online, students will start thinking about their final project.  For our final, students will get to choose their topic and layout design.  Students will plan what will appear on all four pages of their website and choose their design features.  Students will think about how to best highlight what they have learned over the course of the semester as it relates to HTML tags and CSS design features.