APCS @ Lowell High School

Course Introduction

• Back to School night presentation: Simon Chan
• Course Syllabus
• Intro Slide Presentations: Simon Chan
• Please enter your contact information Simon  Chan
• Register for your CSAwesome class (Your instructor will provide the name of the course)
• Sign up for Piazza (Your instructor will provide the class access code)

Java Basics

• Four 4s challenge
• Slide Presentation: Basics
• CSAwesome Assignments: IMPORTANT, Make sure you are signed in and the correct course (“Lowell-CHAN-2020-21”, "Simon_Block2_APCSA_2020-21" or "Simon_Block4_APCSA_2020-21") is shown at the top left of the screen. This ensures your progress is saved and visible to your instructor.
  • Unit 1
  • Units 2 & 3

Programming Projects with Processing & GitHub

• Slide Presentation: apjavaProcessing
• Worksheet: while loops & processing and solutions
• Sign up for a free GitHub account.
• Lightning
• Slide Presentation: apjavaCodingbat
• Sign up for codingbat.com. In Prefs, put your instructor's email address (chanr@sfusd.edu or simona1@sfusd.edu) in the Teacher | share to field. In the Memo field enter your block, last name, first name
• CodingBat problem sets, Don't forget to log in! functions1, functions2, functions3
• Slide Presentation: OOP--Classes
• Worksheet: Nested loops and solutions
• Dice
• Slide Presentation: Arrays
• CodingBat problem sets, Don't forget to log in! arrays1, arrays2, arrays3, arrays4
• Slide Presentation: OOP--ArraysOfObjects
• Worksheet: Arrays of Objects and solutions
• Chemotaxis
• Slide Presentation: OOP--InheritanceAndEncapsulation
• Starfield
• Worksheet: Encapsulation and solutions
• CodingBat problem sets, Don't forget to log in! mixedpractice1, mixedpractice2
• Worksheet: Inheritance and solutions
• Slide Presentation: Asteroids Part 1
• Asteroids Game: Part 1
• Worksheet: SpaceShip Design
• Slide Presentation: ArrayList
• CodingBat problem sets, Don't forget to log in! arraylist1, arraylist2, morearraylist
• Slide Presentation: Asteroids Parts 2 & 3
• Continuing the Asteroids Game: Part 2 Part 3
• Slide Presentation: ForEachLoops
• Worksheet: For each loops and solutions
• Worksheet: Review for fall final and solutions
• Google Billboard
• Pig Latin
• Palindrome Checker
• Sierpinski Triangle
• Create your own Fractal
• Choose one: Fractal Tree or Tendron
• Minesweeper
• Linear and Binary Searching Functions
• After the AP exam

Other Slide Presentations

• First Semester: Math.random() Fall Final Exam Review
• Second Semester: APjavaStrings Recursion 2d arrays Searching Sorting AP exam Important Changes to 2020 exam

Other Worksheets

• Math.random and solutions
• Practice with Classes and solutions
• Pointers and solutions
• Recursion 1 has solutions on the back
• Recursion 2 and solutions
• Linear and Binary Search and solutions
• Sorting 1 and solutions
• Sorting 2 and solutions

Examples and other resources

• Quick Reference guide for the 2020 exam
• Installing Processing and Sublime on your home Windows or Macintosh computer
• Help! My program runs in Processing but not on GitHub
• How to use an image as the background of your webpage
• How to make the background of an image transparent
• A program that uses boolean variables to see if two keys are pressed simultaneoulsy
• How to put images in your program or webpage
• How to save the users progress using Processing's loadStrings and saveStrings functions
• How to change the font of your webpage using Google fonts
• Summer Programs in Computer Science and Engineering
• Letters of Recommendation
• Orbituary is a minimalistic orbiting Game created by former Lowell student Gideon Fox with Processing and GitHub
• Free interactive AP Java review site
• Information for high school students who want to enroll at City College