March 31–April 3

Coding Assignments (2)

Please do two more coding projects this week. If you have a Mac, you can finish the Personality Quiz and move on to lessons in Unit 4. If you do not have a Mac but you do have a Windows computer, you can do two more lessons in the JavaScript for Kids book.

Mac Projects

For the Personality Quiz, to get full credit you need to personalize it. This means you have to ask questions other than the ones they gave you in the lesson. I need one additional or different question of each type (there are three types). You can also change the theme of the quiz.

For the Unit 4 projects, you need to turn in both the tutorial project and the lab project at the end of the lesson.

JavaScript Projects

To get full credit on the JavaScript projects, you should think about some of the Programming Challenges. For example, the Hangman project has several challenges on page 121. In this case, you should be able to add all these features to the program. Some challenges might be harder than others, but see what you can do. The ones on page 121 are all easy.

How can you help?

Please do the How can you help essay. Be serious. After you write it up, I will ask you to do what you have suggested.

Get a Mac

At this point, I am going ask you to do your best to beg or borrow a Mac that you can use for the course work. Finishing the final project in this course requires that you have a Mac. Right now about 40% of you have a Mac. You'll need a relatively recent Mac. (I have one from 2014 that works fine.) It needs to have enough room to install Xcode. Windows won't work for this project, and neither will an iPad. See if you can borrow one for the next few weeks. Let me know what you can come up with.

Adobe Illustrator

A few of you have got back to me about problems installing Adobe Illustrator. We are trying to work out those problems. If you have not tried installing it yet, please wait one more day before trying.

We only have one or two small assignments that will use Adobe Illustrator, but I need to know that you were or were not able to get access. If you didn't get back to me, I don't know whether

• you did not try installing it, or 
• you did not make a metroed.net email address, or 
• you had problems.

For that reason, I am going to make these assignments. Your first assignment is to just send me an email from your new metroed.net email address. (The instructions are elsewhere on the blog.)

Next Week

Next week, two new things will be happening. We will start using Canvas, and we will start using Google Hangouts.

Canvas

I will send you instructions how to get on to Canvas. If you haven't used it before, Canvas is similar to Google Classroom but has more features. On Canvas, I will create discussion groups so you can all help each other with your projects.

Google Hangouts

We will start having face-to-face sessions every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 8:00 am. We will take attendance. I will send you a link where you can register. I may do a voluntary test run on Friday of this week.