What's Going On? April 24th through April 28th

 Thought for the Week

AP Computer Science Principles

We are nearing our time for the AP Exam and our final deadline to submit the APCSP Create Performance Task.  All projects must be submitted by May 1st at 11:59pm EST.  No late work will be accepted.  

During this week, we will continue our review process for the exam.  Students will be assessed on their knowledge of five major topics.  Based on a diagnostic test that students took a few weeks ago, we will look at common misconceptions for each of the "big ideas", talk about test-taking strategies, and continue to practice answering questions.

App Development 1

This week, students will work on our summative end-of-unit app challenge called "Tip Calculator". This app will be designed to be used when someone goes out to eat at a restaurant and would like to figure out how much of a tip to leave the server.  An additional feature can be added to calculate how a bill can be split equally amongst several people.

App Development 2

This week, we will begin our last official teacher-driven unit of the year before the "Build Your Own App"
contest.  In this unit, students will experiment with animation and physics.  In our pre-unit hackwich, students will make a "Pong-ish" game where we can create a ball and a paddle and have things bounce around.  Students will be exposed to the "GameKit" mode of an app, rather than working in a single view application.  In this new-to-us mode, we will get a new set of files and a slightly new way to create our apps.  We will learn how to create an object, add properties to it, and define what happens during a collision.