Daily Calendar

  • March 5, 2025 (Thursday)
    • FRQ Practice: 2022 Q4
    • Turn in alpha-beta project
    • Download ConnectFour and unzip the file. See ReadMe For instructions
    • Assignment: transfer your minimax logic to this game. Only need to edit one file. But read the other players to see how the game works.
    • Check: Minimax-6 should be Minimax-2, for example, almost all the time.
  • March 3, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • 2 Hr Delay!
    • Notes on alpha-beta pruning
    • Submit new alpha-beta code with report to javadrop
  • February 27, 2025 (Friday)
    • Review for quiz
    • Minimax quiz (tree with alpha-beta pruning, open-ended questions)
  • February 25, 2025 (Wedneday)
    • Minimax algorithm in detail
    • Code it up! starter code
    • Submit to javadrop
    • Quiz next class: minimax trees, alpha-beta pruning, code questions
    • Practice alpha-beta pruning here
  • February 20, 2025 (Monday)
    • Snow day!
  • February 16, 2026 (Thursday)
    • Tic Tac Toe Tournament
  • February 9, 2025 (Thursday)
    • FRQ 2021 #3 on JavaDrop
    • Work on Tic Tac Toe Player assignment.
    • Upload best strategy to JavaDrop
  • Febuary 3, 2026 (Tuesday)
    • Tic Tac Toe lab due today
  • January 16, 2025 (Friday)
    • Test today!
    • Grades should be up to date. Check on any zeros please
    • Happy long weekeend
  • January 12, 2025 (Monday)
    • AP Practice Test on Friday (MC only, about 32-35 questions)
    • Do Barron’s 2024 MC practice on Javadrop
    • Return sorting quiz
  • January 8, 2025 (Thursday)
    • Sorting quiz (insertion, selection)
  • January 6, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Review sorting methods
    • Quiz next class
  • December 19, 2025 (Friday)
    • AET Challenge Day
  • December 17, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • catch up day
  • December 15, 2025 (Monday)
  • December 11. 2025 (Thursday)
    • Work/catch-up day
    • Turn in all work!
  • December 9, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Sign up for Challenge Day.
      • I’m also looking for qualified volunteers to help with the Arduino Challenge. See me if interested.
    • Task today: Code up insert for binary trees with AVL rotation
  • December 5, 2025 (Friday)
    • Snow day!
  • December 3, 2025 (Wednesday)
  • December 1, 2025 (Monday)
    • Practice AVL rotation on this website
    • Notes on AVL rotation in class with practice
    • See notes above for extra practice in the notes
    • AVL rotation quiz next class (paper/pencil. no coding, no algorithms, just be able to insert, rotate, balance)
  • Thanksgiving Break!
  • November 25, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Practice AP quiz in class, on AP classroom
  • November 20, 2025 (Thursday)
    • Please work on binary tree analysis lab and submit report at the end of class to this form. You may complete for homework but please submit most of the work during class today, even if not finished.
  • November 18, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Check out deletion notes
    • Finish delete (BinaryTreeDay2) and submit to javadrop today.
    • Also please create a main method that
      • imports your Binary Tree Class
      • reads a list of integers from the user (separated by spaces)
      • prints out the list in sorted order (build a binary search tree to do the sorting)
    • Submit delete to javadrop here or here and Binary Tree Sorter (main method only) to this form
  • November 14, 2024 (Friday)
    • Delete and Find from Binary Trees
    • Submit Day 2 code (add delete and find to Day 1) to javadrop here or here
    • Tester code here
  • November 12, 2025 (Wednesday)
  • November 10, 2025 (Monday)
  • November 6, 2025 (Thursday)
  • October 30, 2025 (Thursday)
    • TEST
    • Bonus points if everybody but Sahana shows up
  • October 28, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Mergesort running time
    • Binary search
    • Handout recursion practice
    • Test next class! Covers recursion, mergesort, binary search
  • October 24, 2025 (Friday)
    • Towers of Hanoi code
    • Mergesort code
    • Turn in mergesort by end of class
  • October 22, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Quiz over recursion
    • Class picture
    • Go over quiz and test
  • October 17, 2025 (Friday)
    • Test 1 scores posted. Scores curved by 2 questions (out of 27), with a max possible score of 101.
    • Today: finish 12 coding bat problems from last class. Work together to understand solutions!
    • Practice recursion quiz on AP Classroom (will take in class)
    • Quiz (not test) next class on recursion. Probably multiple choice. Maybe a small bit of writing code (like a line or 2)
  • October 15, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Upcoming: recursion quiz next week (Wednesday 10/22) and recursion unit test Thursday (10/30)
    • More recursion quick AI-generated notes
    • Try these problems on codingbat
      • factorial, bunnyEars, fibonacci, triangle, sumDigits, count7, powerN, countX, changeXY
      • pick 3 more for a total of 12
      • Finish 12 problems for HW tonight
  • October 10, 2025 (Friday)
  • October 8, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Test!
  • October 6, 2025 (Monday)
    • PSAT Day; short class
    • Test next class. Review material coming soon. You should know
      • RPN practice
      • Tracing (all AP topics covered last year plus simple recursion, and Stack/LinkedList/Queue) practice
      • Stacks and Queues practice
      • LinkedList and DoubleLinkedList practice
      • For the data structures, know their running time bounds, pros and cons, and how specifically we implemented them in class
  • October 1, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Unrelated surveys for AP Stats
    • Finish Part 1 of Calculator
    • As time allows, implement extensions (any order you choose)
    • Here are notes on adding precedence and parenthesis
    • Submit in class, a screen video of your calculator demonstrating implemented features. here
  • September 29, 2025 (Monday)
    • New project: Calculator
      • Read the description
      • Download the files
      • Unzip the folder and create an IntelliJ project from existing sources (select the folder)
      • Complete the assignment as defined in “Part 1”
    • Test moved to Wed Oct 8
  • September 25, 2025 (Thursday)
    • LinkedList Submission due here
    • Implement DoubleLinkedList and check with tester
    • Submit DoubleLinkedList.java here due before next class please
    • Test next Friday
  • September 23, 2025 (Tuesday)
  • September 19, 2025 (Friday)
    • Final Analysis of Stacks/Queues due now here
    • Quiz over stack, queue, AP review tracing
  • September 17, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Discuss results of Stack/Queue timing
    • Further analysis of timing results using log-log plots
    • Re-implement Stack/Queue using LinkedList and the methods addFirst, addLast, removeFirst and removeLast
    • Finally, time your new Stack/Queue and compare the new timings to the old timings. Create new graphs to clearly illustrate what is different and/or interesting. Add these to your same write-up as below (so you should have 3 sections – original results, log-log plots and new results which should contain regular and log-log plots).
    • Quiz Friday (not a test, a quiz) over recent stuff: stacks, queues, some tracing
  • September 15, 2025 (Monday)
    • Please join AP Classroom Now with code NVYVWX (non-testing)
    • Warm-up. How many orderings are possible if you push 1 2 3 onto the stack in that order, but pop them off at any point? (Hint: not all 6 ordering are possible!) What about 1 2 3 4? Do you see a pattern?
    • Queue and Stack are past-due so please turn in if you haven’t already
    • New assignment: Timing Queues and Stacks
    • TURN IN assignment as a pdf C
    • Quiz Friday (not a test, a quiz) over recent stuff: stacks, queues, some tracing
  • September 11, 2025
    • Review these tracing questions also as a pdf
    • Here’s a key
    • Stack and Queue Data structures
    • HW: Finish and submit Stack.java here
    • HW: Download Queue Driver and implement a Queue class in “Queue.java”, by modifying your Stack class. Submit finished code here
  • September 9, 2025
    • RPN Evaluator quiz
    • Install IntelliJ Community Edition for your laptop (make sure you scroll down on this page).
      • Once downloaded, run the installer. When it asks, you should associate .java files with IntelliJ.
      • Once installed, run IntelliJ and create a new project named “HelloWorld”
        • It will probably want to Download Oracle Java 24
        • You should allow it to create ‘sample code’
        • Run the .java by clicking on the green triangle at top.
    • Finish all RPN extensions and submit code This is HW Due ASAP
    • This will be finished in class next time Implement a Stack data structure by extending an Array List. Here’s shell code and a driver file. Make sure all tests pass
  • September 5, 2025 (Friday)
    • RPN Quiz
    • Implementing stacks using ArrayList
    • Modify RPN Expression Evaluator
      • remove ‘test cases’ and replace with a loop that takes user input
      • enhance calculator to support unary operators (will need to use Doubles and not Ints)
    • Quiz next class over RPN Expression Evaluator code and assigned enhancements
  • September 3, 2025 (Wednesday)
  • August 28, 2025 (Thursday)
    • RPN puzzle
    • Square roots
  • August 26, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Clock game strategy
    • RPN review
  • August 21, 2025 (Friday)
    • Intro to class.
    • RPN (Reverse Polish Notation)
    • Price is Right: The Clock Game!