Looking Forward to Week 1, 2016

In the next week or two I plan to try to visit or revisit the following topics in AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science Principles:

• The notion of Programming style
• The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger
• Google Style Guides
• UTF-8
• Hexidecimal and Binary Code
• Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Rob Pike
• Alan Turing
• The ACM A.M. Turing Award
• Alan Perlis (the first recipient of the Turing Award)
• Fran Allen (the first woman to receive the Turing Award)
• Joel Spolsky
• Variables
• Scope
• Assignment
• Arrays in computer science
• Droodles (Donald Knuth was a fan of Roger Price, which is good enough reason for us to have a little fun with Droodles too!)

Specifically for AP Computer Science A:

• Google Java Style Guide
• James Gosling

Specifically for AP Computer Science Principles:

• Google JavaScript Style Guide
• Douglas Crockford
• HTML
• Document Object Model
• The window, document, and window.document JavaScript objects
• The document.write method