Day | Date | Chapter | Topic | Page | Concepts Covered |
Wed | 09-05 | Intro | Welcome | | Introductions, class procedures/rules |
Thu | 09-06 | | Computational Thinking | | Problem Solving 101! |
Fri | 09-07 | Algos | Intro to Algorithms | | Light-Bot Game |
Mon | 09-10 | | " " | | |
Tue | 09-11 | | " " | | |
Wed | 09-12 | | Algorithm Practice Activity | | Putting away your clothes |
Thu | 09-13 | | Algorithm Practice Activity | | Largest number algo |
Fri | 09-14 | | " " | | " " |
Mon | 09-17 | Flow-charting | Flow-charting | | Introduction |
Tue | 09-18 | | " " | | Flow-chart largest number algo |
Wed | 09-19 | Desk-checking | Desk-checking | | Defn, practice on largest number algo |
Thu | 09-20 | | Algorithm Practice Activity | | Sorting a list of numbers |
Fri | 09-21 | | " " | | " " |
Mon | 09-24 | Test | Algo/Flow-chart Test | | Putting your money where your mouth is? |
Tue | 09-25 | Coding | Variables | | How data is stored and handled |
Wed | 09-26 | | Coding: Ifs and Loops | | Basic control statements |
Thu | 09-27 | | | | |
Fri | 09-28 | | Coding: Switch and Bools | | Other control methods |
Mon | 10-01 | | | | |
Tue | 10-02 | | Coding: Logical operators | | Decision making |
Wed | 10-03 | | | | |
Thu | 10-04 | | Coding: Arrays | | The most basic data structure! |
Fri | 10-05 | | Inservice | | |
Mon | 10-08 | | | | |
Tue | 10-09 | First Program | First program: Hello World | | Console apps, simple output (WriteLine), intro to IDE |
Wed | 10-10 | Strings and Basic I/O | Strings, Concat | | Combining strings and special chars |
Thu | 10-11 | | HelloUser | | String Variables, parametric output, input (ReadLine) |
Fri | 10-12 | | MadLib program | | Simple string manipulation |
Mon | 10-15 | | " " | | " " |
Tue | 10-16 | PigLatin | STAIR Design Method | | STAIR Design Method |
Wed | 10-17 | | PigLatin Project | | String manipulation |
Thu | 10-18 | | " " | | |
Fri | 10-19 | | " " | | |
Mon | 10-22 | | " " | | |
Tue | 10-23 | | " " | | |
Wed | 10-24 | | " " | | |
Thu | 10-25 | | " " | | |
Fri | 10-26 | | Inservice | | |
Mon | 10-29 | | " " | | |
Tue | 10-30 | Testing | Hello? Is this thing on? | | How to make sure it actually works |
Wed | 10-31 | | Break WordPad | | Create test plan for WordPad "File Open" dialog |
Thu | 11-01 | | " " | | |
Fri | 11-02 | Classes | Intro to Classes | | Object oriented programming |
Mon | 11-05 | | Class Members | | |
Tue | 11-06 | Critter | Critter Project | | |
Wed | 11-07 | | Inservice | | |
Thu | 11-08 | | Inservice | | |
Fri | 11-09 | | Veterans Day | | |
Mon | 11-12 | | " " | | |
Tue | 11-13 | | " " | | |
Wed | 11-14 | | " " | | |
Thu | 11-15 | | " " | | |
Fri | 11-16 | | " " | | |
Mon | 11-19 | | " " | | |
Tue | 11-20 | | " " | | |
Wed | 11-21 | | " " | | |
Thu | 11-22 | | Thanksgiving | | |
Fri | 11-23 | | Thanksgiving | | |
Mon | 11-26 | | " " | | |
Tue | 11-27 | | " " | | |
Wed | 11-28 | Sprites | Sprite Movement | | Managing sprites on screen |
Thu | 11-29 | | " " | | |
Fri | 11-30 | | Keyboard Control | | |
Mon | 12-03 | | Screen Bounds | | |
Tue | 12-04 | | Collision Detection | | |
Wed | 12-05 | Pong | Pong Game Project | | |
Thu | 12-06 | | " " | | |
Fri | 12-07 | | " " | | |
Mon | 12-10 | | " " | | |
Tue | 12-11 | | " " | | |
Wed | 12-12 | | " " | | |
Thu | 12-13 | | " " | | |
Fri | 12-14 | Final | Final Project | | |
Mon | 12-17 | | " " | | |
Tue | 12-18 | | " " | | |
Wed | 12-19 | | " " | | |
Thu | 12-20 | | Christmas Break | | |
Fri | 12-21 | | Christmas Break | | |
Mon | 12-24 | | Christmas Break | | |
Tue | 12-25 | | Christmas Break | | |
Wed | 12-26 | | Christmas Break | | |
Thu | 12-27 | | Christmas Break | | |
Fri | 12-28 | | Christmas Break | | |
Mon | 12-31 | | Christmas Break | | |
Tue | 01-01 | | Christmas Break | | |
Wed | 01-02 | | " " | | |
Thu | 01-03 | | " " | | |
Fri | 01-04 | | " " | | |
Mon | 01-07 | | " " | | |
Tue | 01-08 | | " " | | |
Wed | 01-09 | | " " | | |
Thu | 01-10 | | " " | | |
Fri | 01-11 | | " " | | |
Mon | 01-14 | | " " | | |
Tue | 01-15 | | " " | | |
Wed | 01-16 | | " " | | |
Thu | 01-17 | | " " | | |
Fri | 01-18 | | " " | | |
Mon | 01-21 | | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | | |
Tue | 01-22 | | " " | | |
Wed | 01-23 | | " " | | |
Thu | 01-24 | | Last day of class! | | |
Fri | 01-25 | | Last day of school! | | |