What's Going On? February 20th through 24th

 Snow Day!

I'm sure that you have heard by now, but we will not have school on Thursday, February 16th.  Enjoy your snow day!  I will see you again on Monday.

Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will continue to work on their APCSP "Create" Performance task.  At the start of the
week, students will have 8 hours and 6 minutes of additional class time to work on their projects.  At the end of class on Wednesday (2/16), I had students complete a form where their assessed their own progress on the project so far.  I have sent this information home, as well as a note about what I have seen in class, to keep lines of communication open on this very important project.  All projects must be submitted to either me or the AP board by May 1st at 10:59 EST.  This project accounts for 30% of the AP score.

App Development 1

We will start off this week by working on our first summative end-of-unit app challenge, "Hello World".
  In this app, students will show off their ability to add elements to our storyboard, make connections to our code, and experiment with using variables.  At the end of the week, we will move into our second unit where we will focus on using text fields to get some user interaction into our apps as well as performing some basic math operations.

App Development 2

This week, students will be working on our first summative end-of-unit app challenge, "Rock, Paper, Scissors".  In this app, students will display images to represent rock, paper, and scissors, for our human player to choose from.  Students will also randomly select a choice for the computer.  Using logic statements, students will be able to declare a winner of the round.  Additionally, students will work on linking to a website to display the rules as well as using the camera and photo library for the user to customize their experience.

What's Going On? February 13th through February 16th

Thought for the Week

Modified Schedule This Week

As a reminder, we will have an early release day on Thursday and we will not have school on Friday, February 17th.  Because of this, the schedule for the entire week will be shifted by a day. This will make Monday a "Tuesday"-style schedule, Tuesday a "Wednesday"-style schedule, Wednesday a "Thursday"-style schedule, and Thursday will be a "Friday"-style schedule with shortened class periods.

Conferences By Appointment: Wednesday, February 15th

This Wednesday, from 4-6, Waukesha North will hold parent-teacher conferences.  These conferences are available by appointment only.  If you would like to meet, please reserve your spot by clicking here.

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will continue working on their APCSP Performance "Create" task.  At the start of this
week, our countdown is at 10 hours and 4 minutes of class time dedicated to working on writing an original programming project and crafting the responses to this project via the AP writing prompts.  Students are welcome to work on this project outside of class and can always request to be added to my JIT class to have additional time to work.

App Development 1

This week, students will spend the first part of the week wrapping up our "Variables Code Challenge" and summarizing what we have learned in our second technical blog post.  Then, we will move into our first end-of-unit app challenge called "Hello World".  Students will demonstrate their ability to add items to the storyboard, make connections, and work with variables in our first summative project.

App Development 2

At the start of this week, students will have time to wrap up the Loops Coding challenge.  For the rest of the week, students will learn how to work with web pages within our app and how to access the features of the camera.

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

 Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science Principles

On Monday, students will have the opportunity to wrap up any remaining projects we have been working on so far this semester (2.1.4: Designing the User Experience, 2.1.5: Securing Sloppy Code, and the Tic-Tac-Toe Tutorial) and to brainstorm ideas for our AP Create performance task.  For the rest of the week, students will have time to work on their projects.  As dictated by the AP board, students will have 12 hours of class time to work on writing their code and responses for the project.  All projects will either be turned into the AP board or to me for grading.  The AP board deadline for the Create task project is May 1st.

App Development 1

This week, students will first learn how to add an Image View to our projects.  This is like a picture frame that can hold a variety of photos.  Next, we will learn about variables and constants.  Students will read about and apply their work with variables throughout the week through a demo assignment and a code challenge. Students will finish the week by summarizing their thinking in our second technical blog post.

App Development 2

We will start off this week by working on our Collections Code Challenge.  In this code challenge, students will work with arrays and dictionaries in order to display information in an app.  Students will use an array to save their favorite movie titles and display them.  We will work on adding to our list and removing items from our list.  Additionally, students will create a dictionary to keep track of their favorite movies along with the star rating.  For the rest of the week, students will focus on loops and how we can use them to repeat a section of code or to iterate through a list.