Lists, Loops, and Traversals - Lesson 15: Hackathon - Project Part 3

Overview

This is the third day of a five-day unit project. Students continue to build their apps.

Goals

Students will be able to:

  • Translate a paper prototype to screens
  • Continue programming an app which uses a database

Purpose

Students will demonstrate their app design and programming skills throughout this five day project. In addition, students work with a dataset as this ensures students will be using the types of programming constructs required for the Create Performance Task, which this project is designed as a practice for. Students complete the project by individually filling out a Written Response, modeled after the Create PT.

This project can be used as a unit project, or as an end cap to the first semester of the course.

Resources

Getting Started (0 minutes)

Do This: Move quickly to the activity portion of the lesson.

Activity (40 minutes)

Hackathon Project

Teaching Tip

Encourage students to check the rubric on the last page of the Planning Guide as they work through building their app. The Written Response portion will be completed on the last day of the project.

Step 6 (continued): Students work on building their apps, guided by their roles.

  • Programmers: Use the table to guide you in adding programming statements to your project.
  • Designers: Use the chart to guide you in adding screen elements to your program. You can work on a separate computer from your partner.
Teaching Tip

If the designer finishes their screens early, they can start pair programming with the programmer.

Do This: When the designer is ready to share their screens with the programmer, there are specific steps that must be followed after the designer clicks share and copies the link to their app. The programmer:

  1. Programmer: Add a blank screen
  2. Programmer: Delete the old project screens.
  3. Programmer: Click the screen dropdown, then click "Import screen"
  4. Designer: Click to share your project. Copy the link and send to the Programmer
  5. Programmer: Paste in the link from the designer.
  6. Programmer: Select to import all of the screens.
  7. Delete the blank screen.
  8. Set the home screen to be the default screen (Hint: Go to design mode and click on the screen)

Wrap Up (5 minutes)

Do This: Take some time to answer student questions.

Planning Guide: As an optional completion assessment, you can look at the table in Step 4 of the Planning Guide.

Assessment: Optional

Standards Alignment

  • CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards (2017): 3A-AP-14, 3A-AP-22, 3A-AP-23

Next Tutorial

In the next tutorial, we will discuss Code.Org Unit 5 Lesson 16, which describes Project Day 4.

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