Week of April 9th - 13th, 2018

Monday:
Go over any questions for the midterm
Reintroduce assignment = vrs test for equality ==, logical expressions, for and while loops
Begin work on Guessing Game programs

Tuesday:
Go over any questions for the midterm

Give out AI Homework #1 (due April 16th) and #2 (due April 17th)

Everyone working on Guessing Game programs
"Simple Python Calculation" programs due by end of lunch today

Wednesday:

Principles of Computer Technology midterm -- regular class periods, 80 minutes maximum

Thursday:

Everyone continues to work on Guessing Game programs, 

Friday:

JSUMC rotation

Week of March 26th - 30th, 2018

Monday:
test on RUR-PLE (50 minutes maximum)

Introduce Python variables and types

Give out "Expressions and Types" worksheet, due Thursday

Tuesday:
Homework due today: "Introduction to Python Programming: Using IDLE" worksheet due by end of lunch
Group 3 current events (finally!):

P1: Jovial, Esha, Caroline, Armaan, Isabella
P2: Nick, Malica, Kaushal, Jaime, Vinnie

Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it. Also remember to submit your writeup to turnitin.

Introduce input(), print(), formatted printing with %

Begin "Simple Python Calculation" project

Wednesday:

Group 4 current events:
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it. Also remember to submit your writeup to turnitin.
P1: Rahul, Leanne, James, Adam, Lance
P2: Kristen, Kylie, Jess, Batur

Everyone working on "Simple Python Calculation" project

Rubber Duck Debugging

Thursday:

Homework due today:  "Expressions and Types" worksheet due at beginning of class
Last class time for "Simple Python Calculation" project.

Friday:

Spring Break begins!

Week of March 19th - 23rd, 2018

Monday:
Homework for today: read "The Way of the Program" and turn in vocabulary worksheet

Review for test on RUR-PLE
Discuss "Way of the Program"

Introduce Python programming with IDLE
Begin "Intro to Python Programming: Using IDLE" worksheet

Tuesday:
JSUMC Grand Rounds

Wednesday, Thursday:
Snow days.  The RUR-PLE test is moved to Monday, and group 3 current events will be due Tuesday.

Friday:
JSUMC Rotation #3

Week of March 12th - 16th, 2018

Monday:
Continue with RUR-PLE conditionals: flowcharts, if/elif/else
You PROBABLY should have finished RUR-PLE part 1 by the end of today

Tuesday:
Introduce while loop
Almost all students should spend today's class working on part 2 of the RUR-PLE exercises.

You DEFINITELY should have finished RUR-PLE part 1 by the end of today

Wednesday:
Group 2 current events:
P1: Brynn, Josh, Renee, Jess, Ainslie
P2: Emily, Anthony, Jake, Jai, Sebastian
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it. Also remember to submit your writeup to turnitin.
Homework for today: if/elif/else worksheet
All students working on RUR-PLE part 2

Thursday:
Last in-class time for RUR-PLE.
Give out RUR-PLE test review sheet.
Homework for Monday: read "The Way of the Program" and turn in vocabulary worksheet

Friday:
JSUMC rotation

Week of March 5th - 9th, 2018

Monday:
Complete medical informatics presentations
The rest of the period will be used to work on part 2 of the Medical Informatics project.

Tuesday:
Introduce programming with RUR-PLE
Why Learn to Code?
Introduce RUR-PLE: subroutine def, for count in range()

You can download RUR-PLE from here. Get the .exe for Windows, or the .dmg for OS X.

Wednesday:
Snow day :-)

Thursday:
(delayed opening)
Group 1 current events due today:
P1: Louise, Christina, Zayna, Elizabeth, Ari
P2: Maya, Hanna, Amy, Kavya, Noa
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Continue with RUR-PLE conditionals: if, if/else
RUR-PLE part 2 available for those who finish part 1

Friday:
Medical Informatics project part 2 due today, before we go to the hospital

The first JSUMC rotation is today - please do everything you can to make it go smoothly