This week we are going to be working on the following:

Unit 6: Explore Performance Task – Begins this Week

To Think; To Develop Problem-Solving Skills; To Discover; and To Create;

Learning to Compute and Computing to Learn

Classroom Protocol:

This is where you will come every day to find out what we are going to do in class for that day. Every day you are to come to your Quia class web page upon arriving to class, go to your class web page, and follow the directions for today.

Homework Policy:

All assignments will be due on the deadline date given. It is the responsibility for all students to complete their assignments on time. Any assignments received late will not be accepted and a grade will not be given for that assignment.

Accessing your Class Weekly Agenda:

Each week’s agenda and assignments will be updated and posted on your Quia class web page on a weekly basis.  Previous weeks Assignments/Agendas will be provided with a link at the end of the current week’s Class Web Page in case you need to revisit due to an absence, or you’re required to make up, or catch up on your course assignments.

Homework Assignment: Daily homework assignments may be found at the end of each day’s agenda. Daily Journal Entries as seen in Daily Ticket to Leave are to be entered as part of your daily homework. All students will receive a homework grade on a weekly basis, and your journal will receive a project grade each mid-term and final semester.

IMPORTANT DATES:     Explore Performance Task:  8 hours

                                                Begin Monday December 4th

To Be Completed by December 22, 2017

Saturday February 3, 2017 Study Session – Auburn HS

Task Begins: Monday December 4, 2017 (Total 9.5 Classes)

This Week’s Agenda:

Your Explore Performance Task Begins Today!

Week 14: Monday Day F - 12-4-17 – Friday Day B – 12-8-17

Monday 12-4-17 – Day F - Friday 12-8-17 – Day B

For the next 9.5 Classes, 8 hours of class time you will be working on your first AP CSP college board Performance Task. This is an independent assignment. Please plan and use your time wisely and use the Digital Portfolio online resources including the Explore Performance Task Rubric as a guide to fulfilling the Explore Performance Task Requirements.

Student Digital Portfolio Guide

digitalportfolio.collegeboard.org – Task description and written response template can be found here. Task requirements are also submitted here. Make sure you submit with meeting all subscription requirements!

Explore Performance Task Rubric

Explore PT Survival Guide

AP CSP Course and Exam Description 

Explore PT Prep: Reviewing the Task

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

Assessment Overview and Performance Task Directions for Students.

Good luck and always do the best you can and most of all have fun and enjoy!

Summarizer:

Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.

Assessment for/of learning:

Not applicable.

Ticket to Leave:

In order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even in every aspect of your everyday life.  Every day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put down today’s date, and provide the following information.

1.   Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives

2.   What did you accomplish today?

3.   Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced

4.   How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?

Feel free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.

Homework: 

College Board Explore Performance Task:

Ø Complete your ticket to leave journal entry within your engineering notebook.

Thanks for a great week!

Mr. PC 

Introduction to UNIT 3: Algorithms and Programming: This unit introduces the foundational concepts of computer programming, which unlocks the ability to make rich, interactive apps. This course uses JavaScript as the programming language, and App Lab as the programming environment to build apps, but the concepts learned in these lessons span all programming languages and tools.

Chapter 1: Programming Languages and Algorithms

Big Questions

Enduring Understandings

Vocabulary

Lesson 2: The Need for Algorithms

• Algorithm: A precise sequence of instructions for processes that can be executed by a computer
• High Level Programming Language: A programming language with many commands and features designed to make common tasks easier to program. Any high level functionality is encapsulated as combinations of low level commands.
• Low Level Programming Language: A programming language that captures only the most primitive operations available to a machine. Anything that a computer can do can be represented with combinations of low level commands.

Lesson 3: Creativity in Algorithms

• Algorithm: A precise sequence of instructions for processes that can be executed by a computer
• Iterate: To repeat in order to achieve, or get closer to, a desired goal.
• Selection: A generic term for a type of programming statement (usually an if-statement) that uses a Boolean condition to determine, or select, whether or not to run a certain block of statements.
• Sequencing: Putting commands in correct order so computers can read the commands.

Lesson 4: Using Simple Commands

• Turtle Programming: a classic method for learning programming with commands to control movement and drawing of an on-screen robot called a "turtle". The turtle hearkens back to early implementations in which children programmed a physical robot whose dome-like shape was reminiscent of a turtle.

Lesson 5: Creating Functions

• Abstraction: Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems.
• Function: A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again.

Lesson 6: Functions and Top-Down Design

• Abstraction: Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems.
• Function: A piece of code that you can easily call over and over again.
• Top Down Design: a problem solving approach (also known as stepwise design) in which you break down a system to gain insight into the sub-systems that make it up.

Lesson 7: APIs and Using Functions with Parameters

• API: a collection of commands made available to a programmer
• Documentation: a description of the behavior of a command, function, library, API, etc.
• Hexideximal: A base-16 number system that uses sixteen distinct symbols 0-9 and A-F to represent numbers from 0 to 15.
• Library: a collection of commands / functions, typically with a shared purpose
• Parameter: An extra piece of information passed to a function to customize it for a specific need

Lesson 8: Creating Functions with Parameters

• Parameter: An extra piece of information passed to a function to customize it for a specific need

Lesson 9: Looping and Random Numbers

• For Loop: Loops that have a predetermined beginning, end, and increment (step interval).
• Loop: The action of doing something over and over again.

Introduction to UNIT 4: Big Data and Privacy: The data rich world we live in also introduces many complex questions related to public policy, law, ethics and societal impact. In many ways this unit acts as a unit on current events. It is highly likely that there will be something related to big data, privacy and security going on in the news at any point in time. The major goals of the unit are:

1) for students to develop a well-rounded and balanced view about data in the world around them and both the positive and negative effects of it and

2) to understand the basics of how and why modern encryption works.

Chapter 1: The World of Big Data and Encryption

Big Questions

Enduring Understandings

Vocabulary

Lesson 1: What is Big Data?

• Moore's Law: a predication made by Gordon Moore in 1965 that computing power will double every 1.5-2 years, it has remained more or less true ever since.

Lesson 2: Rapid Research - Data Innovations

• One-pager: A business/corporate term for a one-page document that summarizes a large issue, topic or plan.

Lesson 5: Simple Encryption

• Caesar Cipher : a technique for encryption that shifts the alphabet by some number of characters
• Cipher: the generic term for a technique (or algorithm) that performs encryption
• Cracking encryption: When you attempt to decode a secret message without knowing all the specifics of the cipher, you are trying to "crack" the encryption.
• Decryption: a process that reverses encryption, taking a secret message and reproducing the original plain text
• Encryption: a process of encoding messages to keep them secret, so only "authorized" parties can read it.
• Random Substitution Cipher: an encryption technique that maps each letter of the alphabet to a randomly chosen other letters of the alphabet.

Lesson 6: Encryption with Keys and Passwords

• Computationally Hard: a "hard' problem for a computer is one in which it cannot arrive at a solution in a reasonable amount of time.

Lesson 7: Public Key Cryptography

• asymmetric encryption: used in public key encryption, it is scheme in which the key to encrypt data is different from the key to decrypt.
• modulo: a mathematical operation that returns the remainder after integer division. Example: 7 MOD 4 = 3
• Private Key: In an asymmetric encryption scheme the decryption key is kept private and never shared, so only the intended recipient has the ability to decrypt a message that has been encrypted with a public key.
• Public Key Encryption: Used prevalently on the web, it allows for secure messages to be sent between parties without having to agree on, or share, a secret key. It uses an asymmetric encryption scheme in which the encryption key is made public, but the decryption key is kept private.

Assessment Overview and Performance Task Directions for Students.

An Introduction to Programming with the MIT App Inventor

Vocabulary:        Software Development Environment (SDE)

                        Computer Programming Environment (CPE)

Programming Language                        Components

                        Software                                    Objects

                        Instructions                                        Processes

                        Program                                     Project

                        Built in Functions                                Recursive

                        Commands                                 Repeat

                        Syntax                                       Test

                        Procedures                                 Debug

                        Functions                                   Software Bugs (Errors)

                        Arguments                                 Run or Execute

                        Variables                                   Problem Solving

                        Logical Thinking 

Direct Instruction: Introduction to Cell Phone App Design

Note: Internet Explorer is not supported. We recommend Chrome or Firefox.

Guided Instruction: Continue from where you left off last week!

1)Setup your emulator by following these Instructions

2)Check out the Designer and Blocks Editor Overview

Designer and Blocks Editor Overview: Gives a tour of the App Inventor environment.

3)Setup Review the following Beginner Tutorials

Beginner Tutorials: Highly recommended as the best way to get started programming in App Inventor.

Click Here to Access Your Development Environment

Explore Performance Task Rubric

More Resources for finding computing innovations:

http://www.ted.com/talks

www.digg.com

http://www.teachersdomain.org

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

www.paper.li

Tools for building computing artifacts:

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

To Do: Create Digital Portfolios for Performance Tasks Submissions. Our goal is to complete our Explore Performance Task before the end of 2017.

·         Begin preparing for the May 11th Exam with practice exam questions from AP training google drive and the career board. Use online student response system for class review and discussion.

Chapter 1: Representing and Transmitting Information

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Communicate with classmates about computing innovations in their lives.
• Describe positive and negative effects of computing innovations.

Big Questions

·        Why do computers use binary to represent digital information?

·        How does data physically get from one computer to another?

·        Are the ways data is represented and transmitted with computers laws of nature or laws of man?

Enduring Understandings

·        2.1 A variety of abstractions built upon binary sequences can be used to represent all digital data.

·        3.3 There are trade offs when representing information as digital data.

·        6.2 Characteristics of the Internet influence the systems built on it.

·        7.2 Computing enables innovation in nearly every field.

Chapter 2: Inventing the Internet

Big Questions

·        Who and what is “in charge” of the Internet and how it functions?

·        How is information transmitted from one computer to the other when they are not directly connected?

·        How can the Internet keep growing? How does that work?

Enduring Understandings

·        2.1 A variety of abstractions built upon binary sequences can be used to represent all digital data.

·        6.1 The Internet is a network of autonomous systems.

·        6.2 Characteristics of the Internet influence the systems built on it.

·        7.3 Computing has a global affect -- both beneficial and harmful -- on people and society.

Vocabulary

• IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force - develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).
• Internet - A group of computers and servers that are connected to each other.
• Net Neutrality - the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers.
• IP Address - A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet.
• Packets - Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information
• Protocol - A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices.
• DNS - The service that translates URLs to IP addresses.
• HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol - the protocol used for transmitting web pages over the Internet
• TCP - Transmission Control Protocol - provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually seen as TCP/IP in writing.
• URL - An easy-to-remember address for calling a web page (like www.code.org).
• Network Redundancy - having multiple backups to ensure reliability during cases of high usage or failure
• Router - A type of computer that forwards data across a network

Vocabulary

• Innovation - A novel or improved idea, device, product, etc, or the development thereof.
• Binary - A way of representing information using only two options.
• Bit - A contraction of "Binary Digit". A bit is the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1.
• Bandwidth - Transmission capacity measure by bit rate
• Bit - A contraction of "Binary Digit". A bit is the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1.
• Bit rate - (sometimes written bitrate) the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. e.g. 8 bits/sec.
• Latency - Time it takes for a bit to travel from its sender to its receiver.
• Protocol - A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices.
• Prototype: A preliminary sketch of an idea or model for something new. It’s the original drawing from which something real might be built or created.
• ASCII - ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is the universally recognized raw text format that any computer can understand.
• code - (v) to write code, or to write instructions for a computer.
• IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force - develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).
• Internet - A group of computers and servers that are connected to each other.
• Net Neutrality - the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers.
• IP Address - A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet.
• Packets - Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information
• DNS - The service that translates URLs to IP addresses.
• HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol - the protocol used for transmitting web pages over the Internet
• TCP - Transmission Control Protocol - provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually seen as TCP/IP in writing.

Introduction to UNIT 2: Digital Information: This unit further explores the ways that digital information is encoded, represented and manipulated. Being able to digitally manipulate data, visualize it, and identify patterns, trends and possible meanings are important practical skills that computer scientists do every day. Understanding where data comes from, having intuitions about what could be learned or extracted from it, and being able to use computational tools to manipulate data and communicate about it are the primary skills addressed in the unit.

Chapter 1: Encoding and Compressing Complex Information

Big Questions

·        Are the ways in which digital information is encoded more laws of nature or man made?

·        What kinds of limitations does the binary encoding of information impose on what can be represented inside a computer?

·        How accurately can human experience and perception be captured or reflected in digital information?

Enduring Understandings

·        1.1 Creative development can be an essential process for creating computational artifacts.

·        1.3 Computing can extend traditional forms of human expression and experience.

·        2.1 A variety of abstractions built upon binary sequences can be used to represent all digital data.

·        3.3 There are trade offs when representing information as digital data.

Vocabulary

• Heuristic - a problem solving approach (algorithm) to find a satisfactory solution where finding an optimal or exact solution is impractical or impossible.
• Lossless Compression - a data compression algorithm that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data.
• Image - A type of data used for graphics or pictures.
• metadata - is data that describes other data. For example, a digital image my include metadata that describe the size of the image, number of colors, or resolution.
• pixel - short for "picture element" it is the fundamental unit of a digital image, typically a tiny square or dot which contains a single point of color of a larger image.
• RGB - the RGB color model uses varying intensities of (R)ed, (G)reen, and (B)lue light are added together in to reproduce a broad array of colors.
• Lossy Compression - (or irreversible compression) a data compression method that uses inexact approximations, discarding some data to represent the content. Most commonly seen in image formats like .jpg.
• Abstraction - Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems.

Chapter 2: Manipulating and Visualizing Data

Big Questions

• What is the relationship between data, information and knowledge?
• What are the best ways to find, see, and extract meaningful trends and patterns from raw data?
• Where and how does human bias affect the collection, processing and interpretation of data?

Enduring Understandings

• 1.3 Computing can extend traditional forms of human expression and experience.
• 3.1 People use computer programs to process information to gain insight and knowledge.
• 3.2 Computing facilitates exploration and the discovery of connections in information.
• 3.3 There are trade offs when representing information as digital data.
• 7.1 Computing enhances communication, interaction, and cognition.
• 7.3 Computing has a global affect -- both beneficial and harmful -- on people and society.

Vocabulary

• Heuristic - a problem solving approach (algorithm) to find a satisfactory solution where finding an optimal or exact solution is impractical or impossible.
• Lossless Compression - a data compression algorithm that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data.
• Image - A type of data used for graphics or pictures.
• metadata - is data that describes other data. For example, a digital image my include metadata that describe the size of the image, number of colors, or resolution.
• pixel - short for "picture element" it is the fundamental unit of a digital image, typically a tiny square or dot which contains a single point of color of a larger image.
• RGB - the RGB color model uses varying intensities of (R)ed, (G)reen, and (B)lue light are added together in to reproduce a broad array of colors.
• Lossy Compression - (or irreversible compression) a data compression method that uses inexact approximations, discarding some data to represent the content. Most commonly seen in image formats like .jpg.
• Abstraction - Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems.

UNIT 6: AP Performance Tasks

·         This unit contains lessons to help students with preparation and execution of the AP® Performance Tasks: Create and Explore

·         The lessons in this unit are meant to be taken piecemeal rather than as a typical unit sequence. Instead of a sequence of connected lessons, these represent a more modular breakdown of the things you need to do to:

1) Understand the AP Performance Tasks

2) Make a plan for completing the tasks in the time allotted and

3) Actually doing the tasks and submitting

Online Explore Performance Task Resources:

AP CSP Course and Exam Description 

Explore PT Prep: Reviewing the Task

Explore Performance Task Rubric