What's Going On? November 20th and November 21st

 Thought for the Week 

Modified Schedule This Week

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we will hold school on Monday and Tuesday this week.  This means that we will have a Monday-style schedule on both Monday and Tuesday, so we will see all classes.  Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your break!

App Development

This week, we will explore "conditionals".  We will take a look at how we can make decisions while our code is running through the use of if...else statements.  During class on Monday, we will work on some coding examples where we practice writing if...else if...else statements.

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will work to complete the "Apple Avalanche" project.  Students will work with "key presses" in order to trigger different events in the program.  While working on this project, students will get more experience writing and calling custom functions.

What's Going On? November 27th through December 1st

 Thought for the Week

 

App Development

This week, we will work with conditionals.  We will learn how we can use if...else if...else statements to help us make decisions within our program.  Students also have the opportunity to explore "switch" statements as an alternate method to achieve very similar results.  Along with this week, students will complete a reading and note assignment, complete a class-lead hackwich, and a conditionals code challenge.

AP Computer Science Principles

We will start off this week by wrapping up "Apple Avalanche".  In this activity, students work on creating random objects (apples) and placing them around the screen.  We are using the "keypress" event in order to direct specific apples to fall from the tree.  Once this activity is complete, students will partner up to write a "Buzz Feed - style" character quiz.  Students will ask a series of multiple-choice questions, and based on the answers, determine which character they are most like.

What's Going On? November 13th through November 17th

 Thought for the Week

App Development

This week, we will take a closer look at functions.  We will learn how to use some of the build-in functions that are built into the Swift programming language.  We will also learn how to create and use our own custom functions.  Functions are great if we find ourselves repeating the same code segments over and over.  They are also great if we would like to share our functions between different programs.

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, we will focus on more event-drive programming.  This time, we will trigger different events by touching a key on our keyboard.  Students will work with this through our next partner program, "Apple Avalanche".

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

 Thought for the Week

App Development

Our first objective for the week will be for students to complete their second summative end-of-unit app project called "Multiply".  For this project, students will demonstrate their ability to create buttons and textfields in order to get and display data for the user in the form of a simple calculator.  Once we have wrapped this up, we will move on to our third unit of the year where we will explore topics such as functions and conditionals.  We will start off this unit with our pre-unit hackwich called "Commission Pay".

AP Computer Science Principles: DEADLINE APPROACHING NOVEMBER 8th!!!!!

AP Exam Information

Please check out this link to find out more information on how to register for the AP Exam.  To avoid a late fee, students must register for all exams by 11:59 p.m. on November 8, 2023.

This week, our focus will be on wrapping up our Activity 1.2.2 "Catch a Turtle Leaderboard".  In this project, students will learn to work with multiple Python files in order to further manage the complexity of our program.  Students will also learn how to read from and write to a text file in order to maintain a record of our game's high scores.