Mr. Minich's Classwork Calendar
October 2006
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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Oct 2

VB -

Work on Ch2Proj4 (due Thur 2:30 pm)

Java  -

(10 mins) Finish Ch2Proj1

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (parameter lists, overloaded methods, actual & formal parameters, exploring the Java & AP exam subset API's)

Data St -

Ch. 9, 11, & 13 Test

3

VB -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (Mod, ^, order of operations, writing assignment statements)

Begin Ch. 2 worksheet #1 & 2

Java  -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (local variables, constants, this, explicit & implicit parameters)

Data St -

Review Ch. 14 lecture (exceptions)

4

VB -

Review HW (Ch. 2 worksheets #1 & 2)

Begin Ch. 2 worksheet #3

Java  -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture(scope of object & primitive variables, calling one constructor from another, using this in a class, BankAccount, using Strings)

Data St -

Review Ch. 14 lecture (exceptions)

Analyze Ch 14 demo programs

5

VB -

Review HW (Ch. 2 worksheet #3 )

Begin Ch. 2 worksheet #4

Java  -

(if time) Quiz -identifying elements of a Java class & client program

Practice writing a class, especially modifiers & accessors

Data St -

Review Ch. 14 lecture (exceptions)

Analyze Ch 14 demo programs

 

6

VB -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (primitive variables, data types, declaration statements, breakpoint, debugging, assignment statements, tracing a program)

Review demo program on declaration statements, assignment statements, breakpoint, debugging

Java  -

Ch. 1 & 2 Test

Data St -

Review & discuss Ch14Demo1

9

No School

10

VB -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (overflow, truncation, Val, CInt, Str, ToString,mixed mode addition)

Review demo program on data types, overflow, mixed mode, bankers rounding, Val, CInt, Str, ToString

Java  -

Ch. 1 & 2 Test continued

Data St -

Finish Ch. 14 lecture (exceptions)

Write code segments that throw exceptions

Write code segments that catch exceptions

11

VB -

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

Review demo program on scope, local, module & static variables

Java  -

Begin Ch. 3 lecture

Data St -

Finish Ch. 14 lecture (exceptions)

Write code segments that throw exceptions

Write code segments that catch exceptions

12

VB -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (vbCrLf, line continuation operator, Clear, Visible, Hide, empty string)

Review demo program on vbCrLf, line continuation operator, Clear, Visible, Hide, empty string

Java  -

Quiz - fill in missing parts of BankAccount

Data St -

Ch. 14 test

13

VB -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (PictureBox, call statements, interesting methods, Refresh or Invalidate)

Java  -

Ch. 2 Test Post-Mortem

Data St -

Ch. 14 test post-mortem

16 substitute teacher

VB -

Begin Ch2Proj1 - Come up with a funny mad lib (ex). Draw an interface sketch of how your program will arrange the textboxes and how it will display the mad lib in a large label after the user clicks a button. Work together to be sure that everyone understands these specs. Begin the program after drawing the interface. Save the project with the name Ch2Proj1.

Java  -

Read the Ch. 3 lecture notes and do #1-7 on Ch. 3 worksheet #1 and all of Ch. 3 worksheet #2 putting your answers on lined paper. Submit your answers to the inbox.

Data St -

Do as many of the three non-Marine Bio related 2006 Free Response questions as you can in groups of two & submit your answers to the inbox. Only one copy should be submitted per pair of students.

17

VB -

Discuss Ch2Proj1 that you started yesterday

Review demo program on PictureBox, call statements, interesting methods, Refresh

Java  -

Ch. 2 Test Post-Mortem

Data St -

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

18

VB -

Review Ch 2 practice test

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (++ operator, loss of precision)

Review Ch. 3 worksheet #1

Data St -

Review Ch. 17 lecture (find/view recursion animations on the Web)

19

VB -

Work on Ch2Proj1

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (rounding errors, integer division)

Review Ch. 3 worksheet #1

Data St -

Review Ch. 17 lecture (identifying tail recursion)

Discuss last year's AP Exam Free Response

20

VB -

Ch. 2 Test

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (String class, instantiating String's, parseInt, substring, String class length, indexOf, charAt, Math class & its static methods, MATH.PI, static vs instance methods, Integer/Double static methods, Scanner class, console input, how primitives are copied differently than objects, BufferedReading, JOptionPane)

Data St -

Quiz on last year's AP Exam Free Response

23

VB -

Work on Ch2Proj1 (due Tue 2:30 pm)

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (String class, instantiating String's, parseInt, substring, String class length, indexOf, charAt, compareTo, equals)

Data St -

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

24

VB -

Introduce Ch2Proj1 & create interface

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (immutable and how assignment operator works with Strings)

Data St -

Continue Ch. 17 lecture (tracing stack frames)

Trace Ch. 17 demo programs #5 & 7

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

25

VB -

Discuss Ch2Proj3 pseudocode

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (Math class & its static methods, MATH.PI, static vs instance methods, )

Data St -

Continue Ch. 17 lecture (tracing stack frames using a binary tree)

26

VB -

Work on Ch2Proj3 - discuss the use of lots of variables and constants for easier maintenance

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (how primitives are copied differently than objects)

Data St -

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

27

VB -

Ch. 2 Test Post-Mortem

Per 4 & 8 - No class due Spirit Week

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (how primitives are copied differently than objects)

Introduce Ch3Proj1

Data St -

No class due to Idol Competition

30

VB -

Finish Ch2Proj3

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (Integer/Double wrapper classes, Scanner class)

Work on Ch3Proj1

Data St -

Pop Quiz on a selected 2006 Free Response exercise

(if time) Work on Ch17Proj2 (due Tue 2:20 pm sharp)

31   End of 1st Quarter

VB -

Begin Ch. 3 lecture (menus)

Review demo program on how to add menus to a program

Java  -

Work on Ch3Proj1

Data St -

Graded classwork Ch 17 wksht #6 as review for Ch. 17 Test on Wed.

(if time) Work on Ch17Proj2 (due today at 2:20 pm sharp)

Nov 1

VB -

Introduce Ch3Proj1 & HW asst to draw the interface

Ch. 3 lecture (animating graphics with loops, For loops, tracing / deskchecking For loops, KeyDown event, KeyPress event, MouseDown event)

Java  -

Work on Ch3Proj1

Data St -

Ch 17 Test

2

VB -

Ch. 3 lecture (animating graphics with loops, For loops, tracing / deskchecking For loops, KeyDown event, KeyPress event, MouseDown event)

Review Ch 3 worksheets #2, 3, & 4

Java  -

Per 1 - no class due to magazine assembly

Per 3 - Begin Ch 4

Data St -

Quiz on 2006 FR?

Ch 17 Test part 2?

3

VB -

As a class, do one exercise from Ch 3 Worksheet #1 and one exercise from Ch 3 Worksheet #2 - Finish the worksheets for homework

Work on Ch3Proj1

Java  -

Ch. 3 Test

Data St -

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