Hello again! It's the first week of October, and it's finally starting to feel like Fall 🍂. This week, we're going to wrap up our work on Unit 3 with the creative task. Here's what we're doing for this abbreviated week:
Unit 3 Creative Task
Unit 3 Review
Unit 3 Practice Quiz
Unit 3 Quiz
FYI Parent-teacher conferences are from 5-8pm on Thursday, October 8th; you can use this link to sign up! Also, there will be no school for students on Friday October 9th due to a teacher PD day. If you're behind, you should use the long three-day weekend to get caught up before 1st Quarter ends next Friday.
Finally, you non-seniors need to sign up for the PSAT through PaySchools by this Friday! More details are at this link.
I hope you enjoy this short week! Please let me know if you have any questions.
And just like that, it's October! 🎃 I hope the new school year is going well for you so far. This week, we'll continue our work on Unit 3: Mouse Motion Events, Conditionals, and Helper Functions. Here's the plan for this week:
finish 3.2 Conditionals (if Statements) - Notes and Exercises
3.3 Helper Functions - Notes and Exercises
3.4 Unit 3 Exercises
Parents: Please use this link to sign up for Parent-Teacher Conferences on Thursday, October 8th. You can also reach out to me through email any time you have any questions or concerns.
If statements are one of the fundamental concepts of all of computer science, so I think you'll find this unit to be interesting and it'll help explain how computers work in general. I hope you have a great week!
Hello again, and welcome to fall! 🍂 This week, we'll wrap up our work on Unit 2 and move on to Unit 3: Mouse Motion Events, Conditionals, and Helper Functions – should be an easy week leading up to Homecoming weekend. Here's the plan:
finish Unit 2 Creative Task
Unit 2 Review
Unit 2 Practice Quiz
Unit 2 Quiz
start Unit 3: Mouse Motion Events, Conditionals, and Helper Functions
3.1 Mouse Motion Events - Notes and Exercises
start 3.2 Conditionals (if Statements) - Notes and Exercises
I hope you have fun at all the Homecoming festivities this upcoming weekend! Please let me know if you have any questions.
Welcome to the last week of summer! Here's the plan for this week as we continue our exploration of functions, mouse events, and properties:
finish 2.2 Mouse Events - Notes and Exercises
2.3 Properties - Notes and Exercises
2.4 Unit 2 Exercises
start Unit 2 Creative Task
As always, let me know if you have any questions. Have a great week!
Hello again, I hope you enjoyed this beautiful 3-day weekend! Here's what we're doing in class this week as we wrap up our first unit in the course and move on to Unit 2:
Unit 1 Review
Unit 1 Practice Quiz
Unit 1 Quiz
start Unit 2: Functions, Mouse Events, and Properties
2.1 Functions - Notes and Exercises
2.2 Mouse Events - Notes and Exercises
Unit 2 is a lot of fun because we'll start to make our drawings interactive by coding them so that they change when we click on certain shapes. I hope you have a wonderful abbreviated week, and let me know if you have any questions!
Hello, future game developers! Here's what we're doing in class this week as we begin to wrap up Unit 1:
1.4 Unit 1 Exercises
1.5 Unit 1 Challenge Exercises (optional but recommended!)
Unit 1 Creative Task
Since you're in a computer science class, you should consider joining the RHS Coders Club! We meet after school on Tuesdays in Room 211 (the same classroom you're already in for CS & Game Design), and everyone is welcome regardless of coding ability. It would be great to have you!
As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Have a great week, and I hope you enjoy your 3-day weekend!
Welcome to the first full week of school! I hope that school has started well for you and any issues with your schedule have all been worked out. Now that we've had a few days to get to know each other and get everyone logged in to CMU CS Academy, we can get to work! Here's what we're doing in class this week:
1.2 Colors - Notes and Exercises
1.3 Shapes - Notes and Exercises
We'll be using these colors and shapes throughout the entire course, so make sure you complete as many exercises as you can. Fortunately, they're all pretty easy. Let me know if you have any questions, and have a great week!
Welcome to the 2026-2027 school year! I'm excited to have you in class, and I hope you're looking forward to a good year of learning about computer science and game design.
Computer Science (CS) is the theoretical, scientific, and mathematical approach to information and its computation. Computer Science & Game Design focuses on computing skills related to programming in Python, an industry standard, high-level language. In this class, we will use Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Academy, a teacher-led, online, interactive high school computer science curriculum that teaches coding through developing games. Students work at their own pace and get help from me when they get stuck. I believe that every student can learn computer science!
Here's what we're doing in class for the first week of school:
Welcome to CS & Game Design! - first day presentation
get logged in to CMU CS Academy
1.1 Basics - Notes and Exercises
I hope you have a great first week and that you're able to get some rest this weekend before we attempt to go to school for five full days without strange bell schedules. Let me know you have any questions!