Unit 3

Unit 3: Parameters and Objects

Problem Set 3

Day 3: Wednesday October 17th:

Go over test from Monday: Review correct and incorrect questions

Homework:

Read Chapter 3 to Read 3.1 up to “Limitations of Parameters”
Take notes about important points in the reading: Notes will be graded.

Day 4: Thursday, October 18th

Go over Practice Set 2

Hand out and go over Practice Set 3

Parameters: Slides

Problem Set 3: Question 1 should be completed
Practice it: Self-Check Questions 1, 2 and 3

Day 5: Friday, October 19th

Students will be able to…

Correctly construct formal and actual parameters (arguments).
Predict output of programs that use parameters

Learning Activities

Students demonstrate sections of The Mechanics of Parameters
Practice It/Self Check Chapter 3, Questions 1, 2 and 3
Programing Project (handed out in class and uploaded to Google Classroom
Problem Set 3: Question 2 should be completed

Homework for Monday, October 22nd

Read BJP 3.1 “Limitations of Parameters” and “Multiple Parameters”
Complete: Notes in notebook
Self Check problems 4 & 5

Day 6: Monday, October 22nd

Students will be able to…
Modify programs using parameters and class constants to create original artworks.

Homework —

Read BJP 3.1 “Parameters versus Constants” and “Overloading Methods”
Jazz up art projects and programs

Day 7: Tuesday: October 23

Presentation: Anthony Chebli
Present Artwork from previous day

Return Values

Practice it questions:

math expressions

min

CountQuarters

POKEMON CHALLENGE:

Homework:

Complete chapter 3 self-check question 17 and exercise #1

Day 1: Wednesday: October 24

Reviewed return values:

Worked on Practice Its

Day 3: Friday: October 26:

Quiz over unit 2

Day 4: Monday: October 29

Go over test

Review Pokemon project

Begin Distance project

Homework:

Review pages 159 - 166

Do: Practice it self check problem 18

Finish Distance exercises

Day 5: Tuesday October 30:

Students will be able to…

Differentiate between primitive and object types.
Apply 0-indexing and string processing techniques to predict the output of a program.

Review Reading: Interactive Programs and Scanner Objects

Homework:

Review 3.3 “Interactive Programming” and “Sample Interactive Program”
Complete self-check questions 21 - 22

Day 6: Wednesday: October 31

Students will be able to…

Write programs that accept user input using a scanner object.

Day 7: Thursday: November 1

Presentation: Yoseph

Students will be able to…

Write a program that requests user input and returns data.
- Presentation on scanner objects
- Practice it problems Practice-It SC 3.24 - 3.26; E 3.12, 3.14, 3.15
Presentation: Yoseph

Homework:

Finish Practice-It SC 3.24 - 3.26; E 3.12, 3.14, 3.15

Outline all of chapter 3: except 3:4

Day 1: Friday November 2

Students will be able to…

Write a program that requests user input and returns data.
- Pokémon Battle Programming Project

Homework:

Watch Unit 3 Videos
- Programming with Parameters
- Scanners
  - Take notes to be checked in class

Day 3: Wednesday, November 7

Students will be able to…

Write a program that requests user input and returns data.
- Pokémon Battle Programming Project

Homework

Summarize class notes since the last exam

If you are missing notes, get them from another student or supplement them from the textbook

Day 4: Thursday, November, 8

Students will be able to…

Find errors in their returned homework assignments.
Correct their previously submitted homework and classwork

Homework:

Read BJP 4.1 up to “Nested if else Statements”
Complete Chapter 4 self-check problems 1–6

Day 5, Friday, November 9

Students will be able to…

Evaluate relational expressions
Predict and trace the flow of an if statement.

Homework

Read BJP 4.1 “Nested if/else” and “Object Equality”
Complete self-check questions 7–9 and exercises 1 & 2

Day 6: Tuesday, November 13

Students will be able to…

Choose which if statements to use for different problems
Use correct syntax for the different if statements
Students will teach a mini-lesson on sequential or nested if statements
Submit several Practice-It questions

Homework:

Read BJP 4.1 “Factoring if/else Statements” and “Testing Multiple Conditions”
Complete exercises 4 and 5

Day 7: Wednesday, November 14:

Presentation: Sepher
Students will be able to…
Simplify code and reduce redundancy by factoring if/else statements and testing multiple conditions simultaneously.
Class competition challenge

Homework:

Read BJP 4.2
Finish outlining Chapter 4, excluding sections 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5

Day 1, Thursday, November 15

students will be able to…

Find and correct syntax errors in conditional cumulative algorithms.

Homework:

Read BJP 5.1 (skip “do/while Loops”)
Complete Chapter 4 Programming Project #2

Day 3, Monday, November 19

Sephre's presentation: The Dark Web

Finish partner project to correct syntax errors

Students will be able to…

Trace while loops to predict:
- The number of times the body executes
- The output of the code
Differentiate between while loops, if statements, and for loops

Homework

Read BJP 5.1 “Random Numbers”
Complete self-check questions #1-4 and exercise 2

Day 4, Tuesday November 20

Objectives — Students will be able to…

Write expressions that generate a random integer between any two values.

Homework:

Read BJP 5.2
Complete programming project 1

Day 5, Wednesday, November 21

While Loops and Random Numbers (3:13 & 3:14)

Objectives — Students will be able to…

Write expressions that generate a random integer between any two values.
Complete programming project 1

Homework:

Read BJP 5.2
Complete programming project 1

Day 6, Monday, November 26th

Fencepost & Sentinel Loops (3:15)

Handout

Students will be able to…

Describe when to use fencepost and sentinel loops.
Use proper syntax to construct these control structures.

Homework

Read BJP 5.3; pages: 329 -344
Complete exercises #6 & 8

Day 7, Tuesday, November 27th

Presentation: Henry

Boolean Logic (3:16)

Handout

DeMorgan's Law

Link to play rock, paper, scissors

Students will be able to…(Day 2)
Write a game, similar to rock-paper-scissors or a pre-existing dice/card game.
Implement the Applied Design stages in order to create a program with an end-user in mind.
- Whole-group troubleshooting and discussion
- Student programming activity

Homework

Outline Chapter 5 (up to and including BJP 5.3)

Day 1: Wednesday, November 28th

Part 2: Boolean Logic (3:16)

complete dice/card game
Submit a program at the end of 2 or 3 class periods.
Submit any Applied Design documents and resources.

Students will be able to…(Day 2)

Write a game, similar to rock-paper-scissors or a pre-existing dice/card game.
Implement the Applied Design stages in order to create a program with an end-user in mind.
- Whole-group troubleshooting and discussion
- Student programming activity

Homework:

Complete: Outline Chapter 5 (up to and including BJP 5.3)

Day 3: Friday November 30th

(3:17)

Go over student generated review questions

Students will be able to…

Find errors in their returned homework assignments.
Correct their code

Assessments — Students will…

Re-submit all homework assignments with corrected answers.

Homework:

Complete Boolean programming project
Begin Studying for the test by:

Day 4, Monday, December 3rd: (3:18)

Go over student generated review questions

Students will be able to…

Find errors in their returned homework assignments.
Correct their code

Assessments — Students will…

Re-submit all homework assignments with corrected answers.

Homework:

Study for the test by:
- Reviewing all the blue pages at the end of Chapters 3, 4, and 5
- Re-reading sections as needed
Submit 5 questions for review in class tomorrow using electronic survey

Day 5, Tuesday, December 4th

Students will be able to…
Identify weaknesses in their Unit 1 knowledge.

Students will…

Create a personalized list of review topics to guide tonight’s study session.

Homework:

Study for tomorrow’s test using your targeted review list

Day 6, Wednesday, December 5th

Submit Problem Set 3
Unit Test

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