Mr. Minich's Classwork Calendar
October 2005
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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

.Oct 3.

VB -

Create "Ch2Demo Breakpoints" (breakpoints, debugging tips)

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (String class, instantiating String's, parseInt, substring)

Ch. 1 & 2 Test Post-Mortem

Data St -

Work on Ch13Proj3

.4

VB -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (identifying points on the coordinate system, DrawLine)

Create "Ch2Demo DrawLines" (Color constants, DrawLines, etc.)

Hacking contest - Draw a house

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (String class length, indexOf, charAt)

Data St -

Finish Ch13Proj3 (due at beginning of class on Wed)

.5

VB -

Create "Ch2Demo call statements and interesting methods" (interesting methods, call statements, PictureBox, coordinate system)

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (Math class & its static methods, MATH.PI, static vs instance methods, BufferedReading, JOptionPane, how primitives are copied differently than objects)

Review Ch3Demo1 BufferedReader and Ch3Demo2 JOptionPane from the Handout folder

Introduce Ch3Proj1

Data St -

Continue Ch. 14 (exceptions, throwing unchecked exceptions, handling unchecked exceptions with try/catch statements)

Study GradeListTest demo from handout folder

Begin Ch14Proj1 (due at beginning of class on Thur)

.6

VB -

Continue "Ch2Demo call statements and interesting methods" (interesting methods, call statements, PictureBox, coordinate system, animation)

Java  -

HW check - 4 methods from Ch3Proj1

Ch. 2 AP Mult Ch test post-mortem

Classwork - Ch. 3 worksheet #1

Review Ch. 3 worksheet #1 & introduce homework assignment to create a similar worksheet

Data St -

Continue Ch. 14 (exceptions, throwing unchecked exceptions, handling unchecked exceptions with try/catch statements)

Continue Ch14Proj1 (due at beginning of class on Thur)

.7

VB -

Continue "Ch2Demo call statements and interesting methods" (interesting methods, call statements, PictureBox, coordinate system, animation)

Java  -

Submit HW - your own Ch. 3 worksheet

Ch. 2 AP Fr Resp test post-mortem

Work on Ch3Proj1

Data St -

Finish & submit Ch14Proj1 (due at beginning of class on Thur)

.10

No School

.11

VB -

Create "Ch2Demo Variable Scope" ( local variables, scope)

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (variable scope, local variables, module variables, FromArgb)

Java  -

Submit HW (vocab)

Work on Ch3Proj1

Data St -

Begin Ch. 17 lecture (recursion, tracing stack frames)

.12

VB -

Finish "Ch2Demo Variable Scope" ( local variables, scope)

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (variable scope, local variables, module variables, FromArgb)

Java  -

Finish Ch3Proj1

Data St -

Submit Ch13Proj3 & Ch14Proj1 if necessary

.13

VB -

Work on Ch 2 projects (Begin Ch2Proj3 pseudocode as a class)

Java  -

Classwork - Do selected Ch. 3 worksheets

Data St -

Continue Ch. 17 lecture (recursion, tracing stack frames, find/view recursion animations on the Web)

Trace Ch. 17 demo programs #1 & 2

.14

VB -

Work on Ch 2 projects

Java  -

Ch. 3 Test

Data St -

HW Review - tracing Ch 17 wksht #1

Classwork - Do Ch. 17 wksht #2 (writing recursive methods)

Review Ch. 17 wksht #2

Trace Ch. 17 demo program #3

.17

VB -

How to take & print a screen snapshot

Work on Ch 2 projects (finish & submit Ch2Proj1 & Ch2Proj2 by end of class period)

Java  -

Ch3Proj1 runtime grade

Ch. 5 lecture (if, if else if, relational & logical operators, using braces with if's, nested if statements, dangling else)

Data St -

Trace Ch. 17 demo programs #5 & 7

Trace Ch. 17 demo programs #4 & 6 (branching into trees)

.18

VB -

Work on Ch 2 projects (finish & submit Ch2Proj3 & Ch2Proj4 by end of class on Thur)

Java  -

quiz

Ch. 5 lecture (short circuit evaluation, DeMorgan's law)

Data St -

Introduce Ch17Proj1

Trace Ch. 17 demo programs #4 & 6 (branching into trees)

Continue Ch. 17 lecture (tracing stack frames using a binary tree, btree stack frame evaluation - inorder, preorder, postorder traversals)

.19

VB -

Work on Ch 2 projects (finish & submit Ch2Proj3 & Ch2Proj4 by end of class on Thur)

Java  -

No Per 2 & 3 due to Spelling Bee & Academic Challenge

Per 5 - Review graded Ch. 3 worksheets #2-4

Per 5 - Ch. 3 Test Post-Mortem

Data St -

Continue Ch. 17 lecture (btree stack frame evaluation - inorder, preorder, postorder traversals)

.20

VB -

Finish Ch 2 projects (finish & submit Ch2Proj3 & Ch2Proj4 by end of class on Thur)

Java  -

AP part of Ch. 3 Test

Honors - Quiz (Ch. 3 worksheet #7)

Data St -

Continue Ch. 17 lecture (btree stack frame evaluation - inorder, preorder, postorder traversals)

.21

VB -

No Per 8 due to Spirit Games

Java  -

No Per 5 due to Idol Competition

Per 2 & 3- Review graded Ch. 3 worksheets #2-4

Per 2 & 3 - Ch. 3 Test Post-Mortem

Data St -

No class due to Idol Competition

.24

VB -

Next year - Do Ch3Demo For Loops before Ch3Demo Horizontal Maze & Ch3Demo Vertical Maze

Ch. 3 lecture (KeyPress)

Create "Ch3Demo Horizontal Maze" (KeyPress, DrawLine to draw maze with horizontal lines, moving a picturebox through maze, detecting collisions)

Java  -

Ch. 5 lecture (using truth table columns & Boolean identities to evaluate equivalency of Boolean expressions, comparing floating-point values with epsilon, String class equals and compareTo methods, predicate methods)

Data St -

Work on Ch17Proj1 - Recursion paper (due Oct 31)

.25

VB -

HW Review (Ch. 2 Practice Test)

Java  -

Ch. 5 lecture (null reference, switch statement, ternary operator)

Data St -

Work on Ch17Proj1 - Recursion paper (due Oct 31)

.26

VB -

Ch. 2 Test

Java  -

HW review or collect - Ch. 5 worksheet #2

Introduce Ch5Proj1

AP Ch. 3 Test post-mortem

Data St -

Work on Ch17Proj1 - Recursion paper (due Oct 31)

.27 Sub

VB -

Complete Ch3Demo1 Horizontal Maze worksheet & extend Ch3Demo Horizontal Maze so that it has 5 lines with collision detection

Java  -

Work on Ch5Proj1

Data St -

Work on Ch17Proj1 - Recursion paper (due Oct 31)

.28 Sub

VB -

Classwork - Use Ch3Demo Simple Maze as a guide for Ch3Demo Vertical Maze

Java  -

Work on Ch5Proj1

Data St -

Work on Ch17Proj1 - Recursion paper (due Oct 31)

.31

VB -

Review topics from Thursday & Friday with the sub

Java  -

Finish up Ch5Proj1

Ch5Proj1 runtime grades

Review Ch 5 wksht #2

Data St -

Ch17Proj1 Recursion oral presentations