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.