Week 1: This Week in AP CSP

Before class (10–20 min)

Barron’s: About the AP CSP Exam; Programming Fundamentals (Introduction Pages 1 and 2)
AP Daily — AP Daily clips on variables, conditionals, loops, procedures, lists
- How to find AP Daily (AP Classroom):
  1. Go to https://myap.collegeboard.org and sign in.
  2. Open AP Classroom → AP Computer Science Principles.
  3. In the left nav, select AP Daily Videos.
  4. Watch the short clips for: variables, conditionals, loops, procedures, and lists.
  5. If you can’t access AP Classroom yet, review the AP CSP CED overview on AP Central: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-computer-science-principles/course

Primary lesson (MakeCode)
- Use: Unit 1, Day 1 — Intro to AP CSP https://microsoft.github.io/makecode-csp/unit-1/day-1/intro-ap-csp
- Quiz: /ap-csp_25-26/weeks/week-1/quiz.html
- Discuss variables, constants, functions, arguments, parameters

Barron’s: Big Idea 1: Creative development
- pages 133-135 Computing innovations [Big Idea 1 - Creative development]
- skim over pages 136-137 to get a grasp of text and graphical based code style you will see in the exam
- page 138-139 program input, stop at development process
sign up to code.org (can use google account) as a student https://studio.code.org/courses/csp-2025/units/1/lessons/1/student
- visit this link to join my thing: https://studio.code.org/join/LSXHGJ
- Watch
  - Computer Science is Changing Everything : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvyTEx1wyOY
  - How Computers Work: What Makes a Computer, a Computer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCq8-xTH7jA