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.