APCS Principles @ Lowell High

Course Introduction

• Course Syllabus
• Slide Presentation: APCSPintro
• Please enter your contact information (You will need to log in with your SFUSD credentials)
• Go to classroom.google.com and enter code vw52pl to join
• Sign up for my class at studio.code.org/join/TZKJXT and enter your name as Last Name, First Name
• Sign up for my AP Classroom at myap.collegeboard.org/login with join code: W4DPNQ
• Sign up form my Khan Academy classroom with code TPAHSN9J

How Computers Work

• Slide Presentation: HowComputersWork
• Virtual Desktop Lab
• Computer Assembly Lab
• Binary Game
• Bits, Bytes and File Sizes
• Encoding Hexadecimal Numbers
• Hexadecimal in the Martian Movie
• Video: Digital Detectives
• Use a hex editor to retrieve deleted data
• Computer Forensics Lab
• Video: How Computers add numbers
• Overflow Lab
• Build logic gates with paper circuits
• Logic Gates in Logic.ly
• Video: An introduction to the Arduino
• Arduino project: Make a LED blink in the SOS distress pattern
• Arduino project: Night Light
• Arduino project: Build a Theremin like musical instrument
• Decode this Message and Text Compression
• .zip compression lab
• Arduino: Build a "High 5" robotic arm
• Arduino: Build an electronic Etch-A-Sketch
• File carving lab
• B&W Pixelation Widget
• Encoding Color Images Lab
• Metadata in digital photos
• Lossy Text Compression and File Formats Lab
• Arduino: Build a game controller for a Mario game
• Create your own Arduino project

How the Internet Works

• PowerPoint: HowTheInternetWorks.pptx
• What is the Internet? and Wires, Cables and WiFi
• School Network Field Trip
• Make your own Ethernet Cable
• IP & DNS: How do computers find each other?
• Windows Networking Tools Lab
• TCP/IP: Reliable data transmission
• Video: HTTP and HTML
• HTTP & HTML: Global document & data sharing
• Capture 6 packets with wireshark
• Video: IOT
• Arduino & IOT: Turn an Arduino on and off from another computer or smartphone
• Video: Warriors of the Net
• Video: Cybersecurity and Crime
• Cybercrime and prevention
• Hack your own password with Wireshark
• Wireshark pt 2: First Contact
• Build a Caesar Cipher Decryption Tool
• Video: Digital Certificates
• NSA Day of Cyber

Explore Performance Task

• Slide Presentation: Explore Performance Task
• Create a Computer Science History Infographic
• Explore Performance Task
• Sample Performance Tasks

Introduction to Programming with JavaScript and P5

• Olympic Rings
• Kawaii Character
• while Loops Worksheet
• Make a Repeating Pattern with a while loop
• Functions and Animation
• Animate a character with an array of poses
• Data Visualizations with JavaScript and P5
• Data Visualization Tutorial: Worlds Largest City over the past 4000 years
• Solve a Mystery with a Data Visualization
• Create your own Data Visualization
• Tron
• Lists:
  • Temperature Conversion
  • Computus
  • Buses and Taxis
• Three Heads in a Row computer simulation
• Linear and Binary Search
• Stacking Game

Create Performance Task

• Slide presentation: CreatePerformanceTask.pptx
• Create Performance Task
• Graded sample Performance Tasks at collegeboard.org
• Create Written Response Template - Word Template
• Assessment Overview and Performance Task Directions

AP CS Principles Exam

• PowerPoint: APCSPExamReview.pptx
• After the AP Exam

Examples and other resources

• Summer Programs in Computer Science and Engineering
• How to export your Python Processing program as an animated gif
• How to make the background of an image transparent with Gimp
• Letters of Recommendation