What's Going On: November 16th through November 20th

Thought for the Week

Set goals for yourself and work towards them.  Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it!

 AP Computer Science A

This week, students will continue to work on their programming project #5 (due Thursday) and our review exercises (due Tuesday).  Additionally, students will participate in some AP Classroom multiple choice and free response questions in preparation for our summative that will take place during class on Thursday.  As always, please ask questions when you have them!  I am available to help whether you are learning face-to-face or virtually.  

App Development 1

For the majority of the week, students will continue with their study of functions.  On Monday, we will practice writing and interpreting functions as a group.  Then, students will complete the Functions Code Challenge to try it out on their own. We will wrap up our functions discussion by completing a "One-Pager" summary that will be included within our technical blog posts.  We will wrap up the week by talking about the "scope" of a variable.

Programming the Web 1

Monday's class will be devoted to wrapping up our web assignments 9A and 9B.  Students who are finished will previous our next lesson through the Flexbox Froggy website.  We will spend the rest of the week learning about a new way to position elements within our webpage through the use of Flexbox.  Our web assignment for the week will be created in class.

What's Going On? November 9th through November 13th

 AP Computer Science A

This week we will continue our study of conditional statements based on Boolean Conditions.  Monday's class will be devoted to recapping all we have learned so far this unit via a "One Pager" assignment.  On Tuesday, we will revisit input validation and testing.  The rest of the week will be devoted to our summative programming project #5 and our formative review exercises. 

App Development

Monday's class will be devoted to wrapping up our Summative Multiply App.  Students will be uploading their finished products to Google Classroom by the end of the class period.  On Tuesday, we will jump into our next unit.  We will start with our pre-unit hackwich, "Commission".  Once this is done, we will move on to "functions".  Students will practice decoding the function headers for existing functions and will learn how to write and call their own custom functions.  Along with our functions lessons, we will have a technical blog post as well as a formative assessment on Blackboard.

Programming the Web 1

This week we will move into our ninth unit of the year.  In this unit, we will focus on floating and positioning elements within a web site.  We will have live teams meetings during our virtual learning days on Monday and Tuesday to talk about some of the important concepts as well as complete some practice examples.  Along with this week, students will read chapter 15 in the textbook and complete the reading guide.  Students will also have Web Assignments 9A and 9B to complete.  These assignments are tutorial-style and step-by-step instructions can be found within our textbook.  We will finish the week by submitting our web assignments and completing our lesson 9 review questions.

What's Going On? November 2nd through November 6th

Conference Opportunity

On Wednesday, November 18th, Waukesha North will again hold virtual conferences.  If you are interested in meeting with me, please sign up for a time slot.  You can find me under the 'Math' department.  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f4daba628a1fe3-math

AP Computer Science A - AP REGISTRATION DUE BY FRIDAY!

In order to register for the AP Computer Science A Exam, students must complete both steps of the two-part process.

1. Students will need to log into their AP Classroom account and declare that they intend to take the AP Computer Science A exam.
2. Students must register and pay for the exam using the Total Registration link for Waukesha North High School.  www.TotalRegistration.net/AP/502389

After Friday, there will be a $40 late fee added for any student who still wants to register and take the AP Exam.  Please note, there is a new rule this year that will allow students to cancel their exam for a full refund.

AP Computer Science A - Unit 5 - Decisions

This week, students will begin our study of the fifth unit on decisions.  Within this unit, students will learn about boolean expressions, boolean conditions, and the different variations of if...else statements.  Along with this week, students will need to read chapter 5 in our textbook and complete the accompanying reading guide.  Students will also have some short practice exercise sets to complete throughout the week.  After all, in order to become proficient programmers, it is important to code a little bit each day!

App Development 1

This week, students will be working on our summative end-of-unit app challenge called "Multiply".  For this assignment, students will make a basic calculator that reads in numbers from the user and then performs some basic arithmetic ( Addition / Subtraction / Multiplication / Division).  Students can "stretch" their learning by adding images to the app and by incorporating a segmented controller.

Programming the Web 1

This week, students will be working on their midterm assignment.  Students will be given a screenshot of each of the four pages they are to include within their website.  Students will have the week to come up with a replica for the site.  Students who are face-to-face will check in their website progress each day in class.  Students who are working virtually must check-in each day, as well, via a daily Google form.  The midterm is due by the end of the day on Friday.

What's Going On? October 26th through October 28th

Modified Schedule for the Week

As you may be aware, this is a shortened week where students will have scheduled classes Monday - Wednesday, with Wednesday as an early-release day.  Due to the shortened week, students will meet with all 8 classes each day.  Monday will be our digital learning day, on Tuesday we will be face-to-face with school starting at 7:55 and on Wednesday we will be face-to-face with school starting at 7:35 and our last class dismissed at 12:10.

 AP Registration Information

The deadline to register for the AP exam is November 6, 2020.  (After this date, it is still possible to register for the AP exam, but there is a $40 late fee.). The cost of the exam is $97.  The exam is scheduled for May and, at this time, is currently still scheduled to be a traditional AP exam.  Students will need to click the "Register" button within the AP Classroom website.  The exam can be paid for through this Total Registration link.

You can see the entire letter about the AP exam sent from North High School here.

Also, please note that there is a rule this year that will allow students to cancel an exam and receive a refund. 

AP Computer Science A

This week, we will be wrapping up our fourth unit on Fundamental Data Types.  Students will have Monday's virtual class to work on our summative review.  During our scheduled class period on Tuesday, students will complete the assessment through Blackboard.  

App Development 1

During Monday's virtual class, students will summarize their learning of Textfields in a technical blog post.  Students will also view the UIView video in order to prepare for Tuesday's class.  On Tuesday, we will work through the UIView.playgroundbook activity together to learn about views and see how to manipulate them through code.  We will also talk about how to organize our app's design by using constraints and stack views.  We will end the week by completing our UIView Hackwich.

Programming the Web 1

This week, students will be wrapping up our lesson 8.  On Monday, students should turn in their completed reading guides.  On Tuesday, students will complete their lesson 8 review questions (summative) and turn in Web Assignment 8A (summative) which is a tutorial-based assignment from our textbook.  As a class on Wednesday, students will do a review to prepare for our midterm project.  Students who would like to turn in missing work from the first half of the course must have it turned in by Monday, November 2.

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

School Schedule for the Week

As you know, this week is the first week that we will come together for four days per week for face-to-face instruction.  Monday will remain as a virtual learning day.  Our virtual learning day for Monday, October 19th can be asynchronous.  This means that students will have some flexibility on when their learning will take place with their computer science class for the day.  The assignment for the day is posted on Blackboard.  Students can complete the assignment at any point throughout the day.  I will be available for questions and individual help within WebEx teams throughout the morning.  

Here is the schedule that we will follow for the week:

 AP Registration Information

The deadline to register for the AP exam is November 6, 2020.  (After this date, it is still possible to register for the AP exam, but there is a $40 late fee.). The cost of the exam is $97.  The exam is scheduled for May and, at this time, is currently still scheduled to be a traditional AP exam.  Students will need to click the "Register" button within the AP Classroom website.  The exam can be paid for through this Total Registration link.

You can see the entire letter about the AP exam sent from North High School here.

AP Computer Science A

On Monday, students will spend some extra time focusing on compound assignment operators and casting.  For this assignment, students will log into AP Classroom to view the content videos and complete the two check-in quizzes.  For the rest of the week, students will work on Programming Project #4 which will allow students to put into practice the concepts that we have learned about throughout our fourth unit of the year.  This programming project will be due on Tuesday, October 27th.  Students will also complete our unit 4 review exercises that allow students to reflect on the underlying concepts of the unit.  These review exercises are due on Thursday.

App Development 1

This week, students will focus on working with UITextFields.  During our virtual class on Monday, students will watch the UITextFields video and complete a short check-in quiz.  On Tuesday, students will go through a demo assignment to work through how to add text fields to our apps as a class.  For the rest of the week, students will work on a UITextField code challenge and work independently with this item.

Programming the Web 1

For the beginning of the week, students will work on lesson 7 where we experiment with changing colors and background images using CSS.  Students will have Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday to work on Web Assignments 7A, 7B, and 7C.  These three assignments are tutorial-based and instructions can be found in our textbook.  Students will complete our lesson 7 review questions (summative) and turn in our lesson 7 web assignments by the end of class on Thursday.  On Friday, we will dive into lesson 8 where we talk about the "Box Model" associated with web development.

What's Going On? October 12th through October 16th

AP Registration Information

The deadline to register for the AP exam is November 6, 2020.  (After this date, it is still possible to register for the AP exam, but there is a $40 late fee.). The cost of the exam is $97.  The exam is scheduled for May and, at this time, is currently still scheduled to be a traditional AP exam.  Students will need to click the "Register" button within the AP Classroom website.  The exam can be paid for through this Total Registration link.

You can see the entire letter about the AP exam sent from North High School here.

AP Computer Science A

This week, we will begin our work on our fourth unit where we will focus on the different ways we can store and interact with numbers.  For our asynchronous class on Monday, students will work with our AP Classroom site and view the four short videos related to variables and expressions.  Students will have two short quizzes to complete prior to Tuesday's class in order for me to check our level of understanding on the topics.  Students will have four practice exercise sets to complete throughout the week, as it is important to code a little bit each day.  We also have our reading assignment and the accompanying reading guide to complete by Friday of this week.

App Development

This week, students will spend the majority of our time working with operators.  That means, applying some basic math functions within our apps.  For Monday's class, students will watch our WebEx Team Meeting Video and complete a short practice assignment within the Swift Playgrounds app.  Students will complete a code challenge on Tuesday and Wednesday.  On Thursday, students will summarize their learning with a technical blog post and a formative multiple-choice assessment.  We will wrap up the week by taking a look at textfields.

Programming the Web 1

Students will start off the week by working on web assignments 6B and 6C.  Both of these assignments are tutorials taken from our textbook.  For Monday's assignment, students should view the video lesson on how to get started with assignment 6B and complete the tutorial.  Our lesson 6 reading guide should also be turned in on Monday.  Students should start pre-planning their answers for our summative multiple-choice questions on Tuesday.  On Wednesday, students should upload their completed lesson 6 web assignments and complete the 10 multiple-choice question assessment on Blackboard.  At the end of the week, students will begin working on lesson 7 where we will investigate how to add colors and background images to our web pages using CSS.

What's Going On? Monday October 5th through Friday October 9th

AP Computer Science A

This week, students will spend some time working with our unit 3 content on implementing classes by completing our summative programming project #3 (due Friday).  Students will have work time during our classes on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to complete this project.  For homework, students will have our review exercises due on Wednesday and our summative review due on Friday.  During this week, we will also do a short check-in with a few AP-style multiple-choice questions related to our unit.  We will wrap up the week by taking our unit 3 summative on Friday.

AP Registration Information

The deadline to register for the AP exam is November 6, 2020.  (After this date, it is still possible to register for the AP exam, but there is a $40 late fee.). The cost of the exam is $97.  The exam is scheduled for May and, at this time, is currently still scheduled to be a traditional AP exam.  Students will need to click the "Register" button within the AP Classroom website.  The exam can be paid for through this Total Registration link.

You can see the entire letter about the AP exam sent from North High School here.

Programming the Web 1

This week, we will start off the week by working on our Web Assignments 5A and 5B.  With these assignments, students will practice their skills in adding images, image links, and image maps.  Students should turn in their lesson 5 reading guides on Monday.  Tuesday's homework will include preparing our answers for our multiple-choice summative.  Students are considered "on pace" for the class if, by the end of the day on Wednesday, the lesson 5 web assignments have been turned in and the lesson 5 review questions have been completed on Blackboard.  

On Thursday, we will begin our work with lesson 6.  At this point in the semester, we have learned about pretty much all of the HTML tags we will need.  It is now time to focus on style.  Within this lesson, students will learn how to change the look of their pages using CSS.  At the end of the week, students should begin working on their lesson 6 reading guide and have it ready to turn in by Monday, October 12.

App Development

It is my hope that this week, students will have access to our XCode program via our MacInCloud environment.  Students have been given logins to access a Mac computer virtually while we are learning away from school.  Due to this access, I will begin teaching lessons synchronously.  This means that students can log in during our regularly scheduled class time and be a part of the lesson.   This week, we will start off with a "pre-unit hackwich" to introduce a few of the concepts that students will be studying throughout our "Multiply" unit. Later in the week, we will take a look at some of the things that go into designing an app as well as the process for developing an algorithm.  We will wrap up the week by checking out operators.  In other words, how we can do some basic math calculations within our code.