Thought for the Week
App Development
At the start of this week, we will continue our study of variables, constants, and data types. Once we complete our group demonstration, students will work more independently on the "Variables Code Challenge". In this assignment, students will work on creating, modifying, and combining variables to be presented as output in our programs. Once we have a firm grasp on how to create single variables, we will start using them to perform calculations using some basic computer science operators. Our operators include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We will also learn about the "modulus" operator which is used to calculate the remainder after division.
AP Computer Science Principles
This week, we will continue working with the Turtle class in our "Turtles in Traffic" project. Once this is complete, students will move into our first summative for the semester. During this summative, students will use the Turtle class in order to program and create a drawing animation of their own design. Within this summative, students will code using variables, loops, conditionals, and arrays. Students will also reflect on their program creation by answering some questions about their code. This is the first look at what students might be expected to create for the AP Performance task that will be submitted to the AP board in May.
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