Mr. Wortzman | Room 3209 | Issaquah High School, Issaquah, WA
This website, new for the 2015-2016 school year, is still under construction. Please excuse any malfunctions, errors, or other issues while we get everything fully up and running.
If you’d like to work on your ship for The Hunger Baubles at home, here are the steps you’ll need to follow:
The Space Battle platform will be used for our final projects for this year. If you want to work at home, follow the steps on the Client Setup and Server Setup pages. We will use some private releases of the platform for our activities, so please follow instructions provided in class and let us know if you’re trying to work at home.
Space Battle resources:
Lessons/Mission briefings:
UPDATE: Please use this form to provide the name of your ship for grading purposes http://goo.gl/forms/fDsRCNULyt.
Welcome to second semester! Please take a few minutes and fill out the form at http://goo.gl/forms/dng3ZNO4sj to tell me a little about yourself.
The PowerPoint presentation from today in class, including the list of topics covered this semester and a bunch of practice questions, is now available for download.
The Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association is holding its annual Winter Programming Contest on Saturday, December 12. This competition is a great chance to practice your programming skills, meet some really cool professional computer scientists, and win prizes! More information on the contest is available on the contest webpage. Lunch is provided for all participants, and there will be raffles as well!
Teams are 1-3 students, and must provide their own computer (one computer per team, no internet access allowed). The contest runs with two divisions: Novice and Advanced. If your team has any member who has completed AP Computer Science (or a roughly equivalent programming course), you must enter the Advanced Division. Most current AP students will enter the Novice Division.
Registration is open through Monday, November 23. You can register online. I will unfortunately not be able to attend the competition this year, but I am involved with the planning, so let me know if you have questions. Good luck!
As part of their support of the computer science program at IHS, TEALS will be providing t-shirts to all students in Issaquah CS classes. In order to receive your class t-shirt, please fill out the T-Shirt Survey no later than Wednesday, October 28.
In addition, we are able to create our own class t-shirt design. If you are interested in submitting a possible design for a class t-shirt, please visit www.uberprints.com, create your design, and send a link to the finished template to Mr. Wortzman. Your design must meet the following requirements:
Please send you design to Mr. Wortzman by the start of school on Wednesday, October 28. A favorite design will be chosen (either by Mr. Wortzman or by class vote) and submitted to TEALS by October 31.
UPDATE: Here are the submitted designs:
Choose your favorite and vote using this form.
The National Center for Women & Information Technology sponsors an annual award for young women with aspirations in computing and technology fields. This award, given at both the state and national level, recognizes women who are “active and interested in computing and technology” and are planning to pursue their passion. Most notably, this award is for aspirations in computing, not achievements, so any woman who has a demonstrated interested in technology or related fields should consider applying. If you are interested in this award, please click the link below for more information.
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award
In order for me to be able to see and grade your assignments, including HW and projects, we need to do a bit of set up with the online systems we’ll be using. Please take the following steps: - If you haven’t already, fill out this form and submit an e-mail address that you’d like to use when submitting assignments in this class. - Visit this secret page on Practice-It and connect to Issaquah High School, then to the 2015-2016 AP Comp. Sci. course. Completing these steps will enable me to collect and grade assignments much faster, so please do this as soon as possible.
Now that we are ready to submit assignments, I’d like you all to turn in a couple of the labs we’ve completed previously. Please submit the following assignments using the links below:
We will be using a service for submitting and grading assignments. In order to get students enrolled in this service, I need an e-mail address for each of you. Please fill out this form and submit an e-mail address that you’d like to use when submitting assignments in this class.