This Week In AP Computer Science,  9/1 thru 9/5

 

 

Period 6 - AP Computer Science

Mon

9/1

 

 

 

NO CLASS

Labor Day

 

Tue

9/2

Even

 

 

 

NO CLASS

 

Wed

9/3

Odd

 

 

Check Required Materials

Review Homework

Lecture on Chapter 1

Finish Lab Exercise 1B

Start Exercise 1C

 

 

HW:  Read the text, p. 10-24 and answer the following questions:

1. If a device can transfer 56 kilobits per second, how many characters per second would  this be?

2. Make some assumptions and suggest how many characters + white space would there be in a page of text.  characters only?  words?

3. Given the above, how many pages of text could be stored in one kilobyte, one megabyte and in one gigabyte?

4. List three input and three output devices.

5. Distinguish between RAM and ROM.  Where might each be employed?

6. What are secondary storage devices?

7. Explain the difference between a WAN and a LAN?

8. How many bits are in 12 KB?

9. What is a URL?

 

 

 

 

Thu

9/4

Even

 

 

 

NO CLASS

 

Fri

9/5

Odd

 

 

Review Homework

Lecture on Chapter 1

Finish Lab Exercise 1C

Start Exercise 1D

 

Collect Homework

Networks & Programming

Work on Exercise 1C 

 

HW:  Read the text, p. 24-41 and answer the following questions:

1. What is Java bytecode?

2. What is a Java identifier?

3. What are two ways to make a comment in Java?

4. What considerations should be made for Java identifiers?

5. What is the difference between syntax and semantics?

6. What are the three kinds of errors that can be made in a Java program?

 

 

Ch 1 Test on Thursday 9/11/2008