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Have we missed anything for the AP CS Principles Course?

All programming topics have been covered briefly but if you have time, you may want to review or add activities covering the following as they have had little or no practice within the above lessons:

• Creating their own functions with parameters and return values. 
  • Note that they will need to create and discuss a function that uses parameters for the Create task.  
  • The use of parameters could certainly use more practice than what is provided in this lesson doc.  If you have time, I recommend checking out the extra activities provided in the Functions Unit of our Version 3 Two-Year package.  
• Working with loops. The FOR loop is covered with our List activities but not the WHILE loop. That said, the loops on the AP CSP exam will look very different so you should discuss those.
• Linear/Sequential Search vs Binary search

It may also be time to use AP Classroom to create some formative activities with the coding concepts.  Using AP Classroom is specifically mentioned in the AP Exam Prep unit (later in these lessons) but you might want to use it now. AP Classroom is only available to teachers who have gone through the AP Audit process and they have many videos and other materials on the AP site to help you create activities in AP Classroom.

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