Schedule
| AP Computer Science, White - G Period, 2024-2025 | ||||||
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 08/18/24 | 08/19/24 | 08/20/24 | 08/21/24 | 08/22/24 | 08/23/24 | 08/24/24 |
| First Day of School, Special Schedule. Course overview, course website, classroom computers, your own computer. Start Unit 1 - Getting Started. Names video! | Day 1-No class | CLASS: Continue Unit 1, incl. Bebras Computational Thinking exercises. | ||||
| HW: Worksheet 1 - Encapsulation and Binary. Fill out Student Info form | HW: Install tools on your computer, Worksheet 2 - Organizing Files | |||||
| 08/25/24 | 08/26/24 | 08/27/24 | 08/28/24 | 08/29/24 | 08/30/24 | 08/31/24 |
| CLASS: Tools installed? Terminal; the course server, logins/passwords, bash shell, basic bash commands, directory structure, logging onto the server | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Start Unit 2 - Programing Basics, 2.1 - 2.4: Java, Text editing, HelloWorld, uploading to the server | CLASS: Continue Unit 2. 2.5 - 2.9. Intro to BlueJ, Producing Output, Data Types and Variables, Numeric Data Types | Day 1-No class | ||
| HW: Worksheet 3 - Files and Folders. | HW: Upload HelloWorld.java | HW: Worksheet - Navigating with the Command Line, upload Powers, TemperatureConverter, TotalHeight, MinutesSeconds | ||||
| 09/01/24 | 09/02/24 | 09/03/24 | 09/04/24 | 09/05/24 | 09/06/24 | 09/07/24 |
| Labor Day (Holiday) | CLASS: Unit 2, 2.10 - 2.12. Errors/Debugging, Getting Input, Strings, CircleSphere, OneYearOlder | CLASS: Test-CS Tools | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Unit 2, 2.13. Methods | ||
| HW: Upload OverflowError, RoundingError, PairCalculation, AgeName | HW: Online Reading-Origins of Computing | HW: Upload PersonalHello, Adder1, OldMacDonald | ||||
| 09/08/24 | 09/09/24 | 09/10/24 | 09/11/24 | 09/12/24 | 09/13/24 | 09/14/24 |
| CLASS: Work day | Day 1-No class | CLASS: Start Unit 3 - Conditionals. Boolean expressions, The if statement; Comparing Values: Relational Operators, Comparing Floating Point Numbers w/ EPSILON, Comparing Strings with .equals(), Comparing Objects, Testing for null; | CLASS: Conditionals, cont’d. | Day 4-No class | ||
| HW: Upload Adder2, FourMethods | HW: VotingAge, SecretMessage, DaysInMonth, SolidLiquidGas | HW: GradeReporter, PaycheckOvertime, CoinToss, CardString; | ||||
| 09/15/24 | 09/16/24 | 09/17/24 | 09/18/24 | 09/19/24 | 09/20/24 | 09/21/24 |
| CLASS: Multiple Alternatives: nested if-elses, the switch statement; Using Boolean Expressions: the boolean type, Boolean operators, using Boolean variables; Test Coverage. | CLASS: Conditionals, cont’d. RockPaperScissors, PigLatin | Day 1-No class | CLASS: case/switch-style conditionals. Review GradeReporter.java, evaluate as class. Pop Quiz-Quadratics.java on whiteboards | CLASS: Video - Computer Science | ||
| HW: TriangleIdentifier, BeverageRec | HW: Complete conditional assignments | HW: Use WKSHT - Conditionals to review | HW: Relax! | |||
| 09/22/24 | 09/23/24 | 09/24/24 | 09/25/24 | 09/26/24 | 09/27/24 | 09/28/24 |
| Outdoor Ed | Outdoor Ed | Outdoor Ed | Outdoor Ed | Outdoor Ed | ||
| 09/29/24 | 09/30/24 | 10/01/24 | 10/02/24 | 10/03/24 | 10/04/24 | 10/05/24 |
| Francis Wass Day (No school) | CLASS: Coding Bat - Conditionals | Day 4-No class | Rosh Hashana (No school) | CLASS: Test-Data Types and Conditionals | ||
| HW: Study for test | HW: Online Reading - Learning to Think Like a Computer | |||||
| 10/06/24 | 10/07/24 | 10/08/24 | 10/09/24 | 10/10/24 | 10/11/24 | 10/12/24 |
| CLASS: Start Unit 4 - OOP. Classes, Objects, Methods, Attributes, Types of methods: Accessors, Mutators. Java API. | Day 1-No class | CLASS: Using classes, creating objects, calling methods, Instance variables and Encapsulation; Specifying the Public Interface of a Class; Commenting the Public Interface. | CLASS: Implementing classes. HANDOUT-Car class. | Day 4-No class | ||
| HW: Person | HW: Counter | HW: CoinForFlipping, BankAccount, GradeData; | ||||
| 10/13/24 | 10/14/24 | 10/15/24 | 10/16/24 | 10/17/24 | 10/18/24 | 10/19/24 |
| CLASS: Implementing classes continued. | CLASS: Implementing classes, cont’d. | Day 1-No class | CLASS: Reviewing OOP principles. AP Problem: Bus class | PSAT Testing Day | ||
| HW: Car, Magic8Ball, Employee, Pair2 | HW: CashRegister, QuadraticSolver | HW: Study for test | ||||
| 10/20/24 | 10/21/24 | 10/22/24 | 10/23/24 | 10/24/24 | 10/25/24 | 10/26/24 |
| Day 4-No class | CLASS: Test-Implementing and Using OOP Classes | CLASS: Start Unit 5 - Loops. conditional loops: the while-loop. Infinite loops, off-by-one errors, do loops (not used in this course). Using debugger in BlueJ. | Day 1-No class. First quarter ends. | US Writing Day | ||
| HW: Online Reading - Bubble Boys | HW: CountingLoops, Factorial, NinetyNineBottles | |||||
| 10/27/24 | 10/28/24 | 10/29/24 | 10/30/24 | 10/31/24 | 11/01/24 | 11/02/24 |
| CLASS: Sentinel values, The break and continue statements, for-loop, counting, summing,. Common Loop Algorithms. | CLASS: loop problems: Strings | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Discuss loop problems. RandomWalker | CLASS: More complex loop problems | ||
| HW: SentinelHello, SumPositiveValues, SumIntegers, MultipleSixes, CountingEvens; WKSHT - Iterations | HW: VowelCounter, Censor, Palindrome | HW: RandomWalker | HW: PowerGenerator, FibonacciGenerator, PrimeGenerator | |||
| 11/03/24 | 11/04/24 | 11/05/24 | 11/06/24 | 11/07/24 | 11/08/24 | 11/09/24 |
| Day 1-No class | CLASS: Number Guessing Game | CLASS: Nested Loops | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Graphical Random Walker | ||
| HW: NumberGuessingGame.java | HW: Rexy, Odometer, TimesTable, RockPaperScissors (opt) | HW: | ||||
| 11/10/24 | 11/11/24 | 11/12/24 | 11/13/24 | 11/14/24 | 11/15/24 | 11/16/24 |
| CLASS: Start Unit 6 - Graphics. Processing installation, basics, window coordinates | Day 1-No class | CLASS: Nested Loops, graphic window | CLASS: Nested Loops, photos | Day 4-No class | ||
| HW: graphic.png | HW: WalkerGraphical.zip | HW: PROJ-PictureProject.zip | ||||
| 11/17/24 | 11/18/24 | 11/19/24 | 11/20/24 | 11/21/24 | 11/22/24 | 11/23/24 |
| CLASS: Nested Loops, photos | CLASS: Start Unit 7 - Arrays, ArrayLists. Arrays; description, strategies including .length, index variable, manually managing the length of the array. HANDOUT-Arrays, ArrayLists | Day 1-No class | CLASS: ArrayLists: Introduce ArrayLists, Wrappers, Auto-boxing, the Enhanced for-loop. Examine Bank.zip (from instructor) and complete instructions in README.txt. | CLASS: FriendsArrayList, Bank project | ||
| HW: PROJ-PictureProject.zip | HW: MonthConverter, MaxAndMin, FriendsArray | HW: FriendsArrayList, Bank, BankAccount | HW: Relax! | |||
| 11/24/24 | 11/25/24 | 11/26/24 | 11/27/24 | 11/28/24 | 11/29/24 | 11/30/24 |
| Thanksgiving Holiday | Thanksgiving Holiday | Thanksgiving Holiday | Thanksgiving Holiday | Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| 12/01/24 | 12/02/24 | 12/03/24 | 12/04/24 | 12/05/24 | 12/06/24 | 12/07/24 |
| Day 4-No class | CLASS: ArrayLists: Simple Array Algorithms: Counting Matches, Finding the location of a Value, Finding Max or Min. | CLASS: Copying Arrays; Intro to 2D arrays | Day 1-No class | CLASS: 2-D Arrays: Project - Game of Life | ||
| HW: SeventeenCounter, RunFinder (optional) | HW: MultiplicationTable, Mugwumps (optional) | HW: GameOfLife | ||||
| 12/08/24 | 12/09/24 | 12/10/24 | 12/11/24 | 12/12/24 | 12/13/24 | 12/14/24 |
| CLASS: Review Loops-Coding Bat | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Test-Loops | CLASS: Regular Expressions; External Files: Reading, Writing; Activity-ElfName | Day 1-No class | ||
| HW: Study for test | HW: Online Reading-The Hackathon is On | HW: | ||||
| 12/15/24 | 12/16/24 | 12/17/24 | 12/18/24 | 12/19/24 | 12/20/24 | 12/21/24 |
| CLASS: Prep for Block Day | Block Day | Block Day | Block Day | Block Day | ||
| HW: Relax | ||||||
| 12/22/24 | 12/23/24 | 12/24/24 | 12/25/24 | 12/26/24 | 12/27/24 | 12/28/24 |
| Winter Break | Winter Break | Winter Break | Winter Break | Winter Break | ||
| 12/29/24 | 12/30/24 | 12/31/24 | 01/01/25 | 01/02/25 | 01/03/25 | 01/04/25 |
| Winter Break | Winter Break | Winter Break | Winter Break | Winter Break | ||
| 01/05/25 | 01/06/25 | 01/07/25 | 01/08/25 | 01/09/25 | 01/10/25 | 01/11/25 |
| Day 1-No class | CLASS: Welcome Back. Winter Decathlon (zip download) | Class cancelled | Class cancelled | Class cancelled | ||
| HW: Winter Decathlon | ||||||
| AP Computer Science, White - G Period, 2024-2025 | ||||||
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 01/12/25 | 01/13/25 | 01/14/25 | 01/15/25 | 01/16/25 | 01/17/25 | 01/18/25 |
| Class cancelled | Day 1-No class. Return to school. | CLASS: Winter Decathlon | CLASS: Intro to git. Installation, set up global variables, init a project, status, log, commit | Day 4-No class. Second Semester Begins | ||
| HW: | HW: Winter Decathlon | HW: | ||||
| 01/19/25 | 01/20/25 | 01/21/25 | 01/22/25 | 01/23/25 | 01/24/25 | 01/25/25 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday | CLASS: branches, merges, conflicts. Intro to GitHub : downloads. |
CLASS: GitHub continued, cloning, pushing. Putting your own project on GitHub. Begin work on PlaylistProject | Day 1-No class | CLASS: Playlist Project | ||
| HW: | HW: Playlist Project | HW: Playlist Project | ||||
| 01/26/25 | 01/27/25 | 01/28/25 | 01/29/25 | 01/30/25 | 01/31/25 | 02/01/25 |
| CLASS:Pull requests | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Review, HANDOUT-Arrays, ArrayLists. CodingBat with Arrays (Array1, Array2). | CLASS: Test-Arrays, ArrayLists | Day 1-No class | ||
| HW: | HW: Review for test | HW: Push PlaylistProject to GitHub | ||||
| 02/02/25 | 02/03/25 | 02/04/25 | 02/05/25 | 02/06/25 | 02/07/25 | 02/08/25 |
| CLASS: Designing Classes; Designing Good Methods; Intro to UML. Do CashRegisterCoin.zip . | CLASS: Accessors, Mutators, and Immutable Classes; Side Effects; Call-by-Value vs. Call-by-Reference; Preconditions and Postconditions; assertions; Download Project-CR Coin Returner.zip | Day 4-No class | CLASS:Problem-Solving Patterns; Static Variables and Methods; Scope. Examples: BankAccount, RectangleTester. Write Statistics class. | CLASS: Design Patterns, Introduce Project: Office Supplies | ||
| HW: Read Ch 11, Sections 11.1 - 11.6. Upload CashRegisterCoin.zip . | HW: Work on CR Coin Returner.zip | HW: Upload completed CRCoinReturner.zip. | HW: Work on Project-Office Supplies | |||
| 02/09/25 | 02/10/25 | 02/11/25 | 02/12/25 | 02/13/25 | 02/14/25 | 02/15/25 |
| Day 1-No class | CLASS: Continue OfficeSupplies | CLASS: Simulations, Project-RideShare | Day 4-No class | Professional Growth Day | ||
| HW: Work on OfficeSupplies | HW: Work on implementing solution to RideShare | |||||
| 02/16/25 | 02/17/25 | 02/18/25 | 02/19/25 | 02/20/25 | 02/21/25 | 02/22/25 |
| Presidents’ Day (Holiday) | CLASS: Simulations, RideShare | CLASS: Simulations, RideShare | Day 1-No class | CLASS: Inheritance; Subclasses. Write Person superclass and subclasses. Get Handout-OOP Inheritance Review. | ||
| HW: Work on implementing solution to RideShare | HW: Work on implementing solution to RideShare | HW: Read Lecture notes on Inheritance (Unit 10, part 1), upload Person.zip (w/Person, Student, and Instructor classes) | ||||
| 02/23/25 | 02/24/25 | 02/25/25 | 02/26/25 | 02/27/25 | 02/28/25 | 03/01/25 |
| CLASS: Overriding Methods; The Clothing class | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Polymorphism; Cosmic Superclass (Object), overriding methods | CLASS: Introduce Project: Zookeeper. (Instructor gone) | Day 1-No class | ||
| HW: Upload Clothing.java | HW: Upload Wardrobe.zip. | HW: Work on Zookeeper | ||||
| 03/02/25 | 03/03/25 | 03/04/25 | 03/05/25 | 03/06/25 | 03/07/25 | 03/08/25 |
| CLASS: Complete Zookeeper. (Instructor gone) | CLASS: Start BallInheritance activity | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Continue BallInheritance Activity | CLASS: Open Source. Linux, Servers, VPS, Domains, LAMP, installing software. Software. openssl. cron jobs. | SCaLE Conference | |
| HW: Work on projects | HW: Work on BallInheritance | HW: Upload BallInheritance.zip | HW: Relax | |||
| 03/09/25 | 03/10/25 | 03/11/25 | 03/12/25 | 03/13/25 | 03/14/25 | 03/15/25 |
| US Writing Day | Day 1-No class. Quarter 4 Begins | Quarter 4 begins. CLASS: Intro to Recursion; Recursive Loop. Visual Code Tracing of recursive calls. Recursive Sums, Recursive Products, Recursive Fibonacci | CLASS: Recursion; Fractal Trees (Processing), Sierpinski Triangles (Processing) | Day 4-No class | ||
| HW: Read Ch 5, sections 5.8 - 5.10; upload RecursiveSum.java; upload RecursiveFactorial.java | HW: Upload recursion.png, a PNG file of a recursive image that you created | |||||
| 03/16/25 | 03/17/25 | 03/18/25 | 03/19/25 | 03/20/25 | 03/21/25 | 03/22/25 |
| CLASS: Sorting and Searching: Selection Sort | CLASS: Timing Utility (provided), modifying SelectionSort for Big-O analysis; Intro to InsertionSort | Day 1-No class | CLASS: InsertionSortDemo completed. Intro to searching. | CLASS: Searching: Linear Search | ||
| HW: Complete SelectionSortDemo.java | HW: Upload SelectionSortDemo.zip | HW: Upload InsertionSortDemo.zip | HW: LinearSearch.java due. | |||
| 03/23/25 | 03/24/25 | 03/25/25 | 03/26/25 | 03/27/25 | 03/28/25 | 03/29/25 |
| Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break | ||
| 03/30/25 | 03/31/25 | 04/01/25 | 04/02/25 | 04/03/25 | 04/04/25 | 04/05/25 |
| Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break | ||
| 04/06/25 | 04/07/25 | 04/08/25 | 04/09/25 | 04/10/25 | 04/11/25 | 04/12/25 |
| Day 4-No class | CLASS: Welcome Back. Spring Decathlon! | CLASS: Spring Decathlon | Day 1-No class | CLASS: Recursive Searching, Recursive Sorting: MergeSort | ||
| HW: Work on Spring Decathlon | HW: Work on Spring Decathlon | HW: BinarySearch.java due. Work on MergeSortDemo.java | ||||
| 04/13/25 | 04/14/25 | 04/15/25 | 04/16/25 | 04/17/25 | 04/18/25 | 04/19/25 |
| CLASS: Abstract Classes, Shape class. Introduce AbstractRacers | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Continue AbstractRacers project | CLASS: Test-Inheritance | Day 1-No class. Terrapalooza | ||
| HW: Upload AbstractShape.zip | HW: AbstractRacers commits | HW: Relax | ||||
| 04/20/25 | 04/21/25 | 04/22/25 | 04/23/25 | 04/24/25 | 04/25/25 | 04/26/25 |
| CLASS: Intro to AP Exam Review: Online resources, Videos, Test format, MC, FR. Quick reference distributed. FR: 2019 APCalendar in class. | CLASS: AP Exam Review: MC. Online resources. | Day 4-No class | CLASS: Free Response in class, 2019. | Day 6-Pet & Hobby Show. CLASS: Free Response 2024 | ||
| HW: 2019 StepTracker | HW: | HW: | HW: Complete Gizmo | |||
| 04/27/25 | 04/28/25 | 04/29/25 | 04/30/25 | 05/01/25 | 05/02/25 | 05/03/25 |
| Day 1-No class | CLASS: AP Exam Review: MC | CLASS: AP Exam Review: FR | Day 4-No class | CLASS: AP Exam Review: FR | ||
| HW: | HW: Complete ScrambleWord problem | |||||
| 05/04/25 | 05/05/25 | 05/06/25 | 05/07/25 | 05/08/25 | 05/09/25 | 05/10/25 |
| AP Week 1 | CLASS: Last day of prep | Day 1-No class | AP Comp Sci A Exam | CLASS: Privacy and Technology: “Enemy of the State” | Day 4-No class | |
| AP Review session at Poly, 1-4pm | HW: Relax! | HW: Relax! | ||||
| 05/11/25 | 05/12/25 | 05/13/25 | 05/14/25 | 05/15/25 | 05/16/25 | 05/17/25 |
| AP Week 2 | CLASS: Privacy and Technology: “Enemy of the State” | CLASS: Privacy and Technology: “Enemy of the State” | Day 1-No class | CLASS: Privacy and Technology: NY Times video. BitWarden demo | CLASS: Intro to Machine Learning | |
| HW: Relax! | HW: Relax! | HW: Relax! | ||||
| 05/18/25 | 05/19/25 | 05/20/25 | 05/21/25 | 05/22/25 | 05/23/25 | 05/24/25 |
| Day 4-No class | Day 5. Last day for Seniors. | Day 6 | Day 1-No class | Day 2 | ||
| 05/25/25 | 05/26/25 | 05/27/25 | 05/28/25 | 05/29/25 | 05/30/25 | 05/31/25 |
| Memorial Day (Holiday) | Block Day | Block Day | Block Day | Block Day | ||
| 06/01/25 | 06/02/25 | 06/03/25 | 06/04/25 | 06/05/25 | 06/06/25 | 06/07/25 |
| Special Schedule | Special Schedule | US Honors Day & Commencement | ||||