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AP CS A - Nov 19, 2010

Attendance for AP CS A - Nov 19, 2010
The Institute for Computing Education (ICE) is proud to host an Advanced Placement Computer Science A workshop on Friday November 19th, 2010 from 8:00 am - 4:30 pm at GA Tech. The workshop will take place in the College of Computing, room 345. Teachers must attend the entire workshop and do 2 hours of additional work on JavaBat.com or on the AP database to get 1 PLU. All teachers must register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9DPLS6M. Georgia public school teachers must also register at http://www.ctaern.org for workshop CTAERN3081. The registration deadline is November 11, 2010.

Course home page http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/4483.html
New scoring for AP exams http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/212187.html
Barb's materials for AP CS A course http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/1043
Starter classes for free response questions http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/1277
Scoring guidelines for free response questions and sample responses http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/2000.html
GridWorld projects http://www.cubtube.thecubscientist.com/APCS/index08_GridWorldProjects2010.html
GridWorld problems http://cs.colgate.edu/APCS/APWorkshops/APWorkshopList.html
GridWorld projects (password protected) http://martin.apluscomputerscience.com/gridworld.html
Teacher website for greenfoot http://greenroom.greenfoot.org/
CS Unplugged http://csunplugged.org/
Pratice it site http://webster.cs.washington.edu:8080/practiceit/
Javabat site http://www.javabat.com
Jeliot software for watching a program executing http://cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot/
CS 4 Fun http://www.cs4fn.org/mathemagic/mathemagic.html
Fractals in Africa http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals.html
Cornrow Braiding http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/african/CORNROW_CURVES/cornrow_homepage.html
Programming a robot game http://www.kongregate.com/games/Coolio_Niato/light-bot
Magic trick with binary cards http://www.mathmaniacs.org/lessons/01-binary/Magic_Trick/

This workshop is for teachers who are currently teaching AP CS A. It will help you prepare your students for the AP CS A exam. Teachers will gain hands-on experience with GridWorld. They will do exercises with 2-dimensional arrays. They will learn about resources that they can use to help prepare their students for the exam. We will also cover how to teach difficult concepts like inheritance, abstract classes, polymorphism, recursion, and sorting.

This workshop is free for Georgia teachers. Thanks to our National Science Foundation grants we can also cover the cost of a substitute. If you live > 30 miles from Georgia Tech we will pay for your hotel for Thursday night (2 teachers per room), Thursday night dinner, and Friday breakfast. If you would prefer a private room you can pay 1/2 the hotel cost. We will cover parking for Georgia teachers who stay at the hotel and reimburse parking for Georgia teachers who do not stay at the hotel. We will pay for lunch for all teachers. Space is limited to 30.

Please bring a laptop if you have one, or notify us if you need to borrow a laptop.

Out-of-state teachers pay $140. Checks for $140.00 should be made out to Georgia Institute of Technology and sent to:

Felicia Auzla
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280

Her e-mail is gatech.ice@gmail.com. Her phone is 404-894-6858.


After completing this workshop teachers will be able to:



Tenative Agenda:
8:00am - 8:30am Introductions and an overview of the AP CS A exam
8:30am - 9:00am Changes in 2011 - new scoring algorithm
9:00am - 11:00am GridWorld and extensions
11:00am - 12:00am Free response questions
12:00pm - 12:30pm Lunch break
12:30pm - 4:00pm How to teach difficult concepts: inheritance, abstract classes, polymorphism, recursion, and sorting
4:00pm - 4:15pm Additional Resources
4:15pm - 4:30pm Surveys

Student Worker: Michelle Bjornas

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