What's Going On? February 26th through March 1st

 Thought for the Week

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Programming the Web 1

Monday's class will be dedicated as a work day for students to wrap up our lesson 4 web assignments.  Once this is complete, we will take on Lesson 5.  This means that we will also get to work with the industry-standard program, DreamWeaver.  Students will learn how to use this powerful software to enhance the look of our web pages.  It will also ease our workload but providing some built-in tools to proofread our work.  Along with this lesson, students will read chapters 7 and 10 from the textbook and complete the accompanying reading guide (due Thursday).  Students will also have two web assignments where we will show off how to work with images and turn them into links.  We will conclude the week by completing our lesson 5 review questions.

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will continue their work on their AP Create performance task.  Students have a total of
9 class hours to complete their project but may work on their code outside of class.  That being said, the majority of the project should be done in class.  At the start of the week, students will have just over 6 hours of class time left to work on the project.

What's Going On? February 19th through February 23rd

 Thought for the Week

 

Programming for the Web 1

This week, students will focus on how to create links.  We will learn how to create absolute links or links to other websites such as Google.  We will learn how to create relative links or links to other pages within our website.  Lastly, we will learn how to create link fragments that link to other parts within a web page.  Along with this week, students will read chapter 6 in our textbook and complete the accompanying reading guide.  We will also create two web projects.  In project 4A, students will create links for the "Jen's Kitchen" website.  In project 4B, students will create link fragments that link letters at the top of the web page to the alphabetical section of the site.  Students will complete our weekly multiply choice questions at the start of class on Friday.

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will begin our 9 hours of class time to work on our official AP "Create Task" that will
be submitted to the AP board as part of our AP exam grade.  Monday's class was devoted to getting organized for the task ahead.  The rest of the week, and next week, will be work time for the project.  Students must submit their AP projects to the AP board by April 30th.  Late work is not accepted by the AP board. 

What's Going On? February 12th through 15th

 Thought for the Week

Modified Schedule for Our Short Week:  This week, our schedule will look a little different.  On Monday, we will run a FRIDAY schedule.  The rest of the week will run as normal.  However, on Thursday, we will have a shortened schedule due to our early release day.  All students will have a day off on Friday.  Enjoy your February break!

Programming the Web 1

This week, students will work on our lesson 3 web assignments.  Students will turn in our lesson 3 reading guide on Monday and complete our weekly multiple-choice questions on Tuesday.  To go along with lesson 3, students will complete two different web page assignments.  In 3A, students will demonstrate their ability to mark up ordered lists, unordered lists, and description lists.  In assignment 3B, students will work with structural tags to mark up a document.  We have already worked with heading tags and paragraph tags, so students will get some further practice with these.  Additionally, students will learn how to code special characters, such as the copyright symbol, and add additional structure to our page using the "section" and "article" tags.  

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will get started on their official "Create" performance tasks that we will submit to the AP board as part of our AP exam score.  We will spend Monday's class brainstorming, talking about the project requirements, choosing groups, and deciding on a topic.  The rest of the week will be devoted to student work time to get started on the project.  Students will get 8 hours of class time to work on the project that will be submitted to the AP board.  On the exam day in May, students will answer questions related to their code as well as answer 70 multiple-choice questions.

What's Going On? February 5th through February 9th

Thought for the Week

Programming for the Web 1

We will start off this week by wrapping up our second lesson of the semester.  In this lesson, students have learned some of the basics of creating a web page.  Once this is wrapped up, students will start to add some more elements to our pages, including "lists", "quotes", "sections", and more.  This week, students will read Chapter 5 in our textbook, complete the accompanying reading guide, and our 10 multiple-choice questions.  Students will also show off how to incorporate lists and other elements in some sample web pages.

AP Computer Science Principles

This week, students will spend a little bit of time talking about the characteristics of a "strong" password.  Students will work on creating a short program to "hack" and guess a user's password based on a dictionary of possible words.  At the end of the week, students will work with the TKInter platform to learn a new way to create a graphic display for a python program.