Daily Calendar
- October 2, 2026 (Friday)
- ArrayList Review
- Homework
- put FRQ on AP Classroom
- take the ArrayList practice quiz on schoology
- Test Dates
- Arrays and ArrayLists: October 13
- Classes and Strings: October 23
- September 30, 2026 (Wednesday)
- Recursion Quiz
- Sign up for AP Classroom and work on ArrayList Review
- HW: Finish Hanoi Project
- September 28, 2026 (Monday)
- Check Recursion Day 2 HW key in class
- Programming Project: Hanoi Project. Add these files to a new project
- Read through the assignment and write your solutions on paper first, then complete the program finish for HW
- Next class: recursion quiz (about 6-8 questions) on Recursion HW 1 and 2 (mostly 1)
- September 24, 2026 (Thursday)
- September 17, 2026 (Thursday)
- September 15, 2026 (Tuesday)
- Interactive Cobweb quiz, bring your working code
- September 11, 2026 (Friday)
- Go over Fixed Point Worksheet
- Start on Cobweb assignment. Download and unzip these files and add them to the
src folder of a new IntelliJ project
- HW: Complete all tasks in the assignment handout. Bring working code next class for interactive quiz!
- September 9, 2026 (Wednesday)
- Turn in Fixed Point worksheet
- Write code for array methods in class. These will be used in the next assignment
- September 3, 2026 (Thursday)
- Work on this assignment in class
- Finish most or all for HW. We will have some time next class to look at it also
- Complete the worksheet handed out at home or in class.
- Have a great weekend!!
- September 1, 2026 (Tuesday)
- Finding fixed points using binary search
- Download IntelliJ (Community Edition is free)
- August 28, 2026 (Friday)
- QUIZ over stuff! RPN, Binary search, Expression Trees, Math, Life, Star Trek and Piano music
- Here are some RPN Practice Problems for optional review
- (Continued from last class) Work on the Fixed Points worksheet
- Read the Desmos Instructions on iterating fixed points
- Investigate the behavior of the logistic map: $f(x) = rx(1-x)$ for values of $r$ between 3.0 and 4.0
- August 26, 2026 (Wednesday)
- RPN Challenge: write down integers from last class
2 3 4 5 on the board
- How many valid RPN expressions can be written with
2 3 4 5 and + - * \ ^
- Answers to all RPN Challenge problems
- Trace Binary Search F from binary search, using this worksheet to organize your tracing
- Quiz next class! Binary search, tracing, RPN, expressions, fixed points, big numbers!
- August 24, 2026 (Monday)
- August 20, 2026 (Thursday)
- A good review of RPN problems is here
- Today discuss your solution to the HW problem
- There is a new RPN Worksheet 2 to complete in class
- Binary search removes 1/2 of the list every time so it takes at worst $\log_2(n)$ steps to play Clock Game
- QUIZ next class – show me a binder or folder with space to hold worksheets, and your own blank paper!
- August 18, 2026 (Tuesday)
- Intro to class.
- RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) intro Worksheet 1. Can you complete the worksheet in class by following the examples?
- Price is Right “Clock Game”. What algorithm would you use? Volunteers play the game in class.
- Devise your best algorithm for playing the Clock Game. What number would you pick first between 0 and 1000? What would you pick second?
- HW: Determine for your algorithm the worst case if guessing an integer between 0 and 1000.