"The Future is in Your Hands"
New York • New Jersey • California
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Technology
INTRODUCTION TO TECHNOLOGY
Students will learn to:
- Make informed career choices
- Make informed decisions as consumers of technology
- Develop an understanding of the impacts and consequences of technology, so that as citizens they can exercise judgment and recognize the need of technological advancements
- They will learn to apply creative problem solving techniques to technical problems
- Understand resources, processes and outputs and their relationships within technological systems
- Students will learn to apply the concepts of mathematics, sciences, social studies, language arts, humanities and the arts in the context of contemporary technology
- Students will learn to use technology as the catalyst for an interdisciplinary approach to education
- Develop an attitude that encourages individuals to keep pace with the rapidly changing society and realize that education is a lifelong process
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Teachers instruct using Microsoft's Visual Basic, students will create a variety of "event driven" programs, and will write well structured, user friendly interactive programs. Students cover:
- Using a computer
- Drop down menus
- Syntax of visual basic
- Event driven programming
- Placing objects
- Coding visual basic programs
- Changing object properties
- Algebraic expressions
- Data types
- String functions
- If-Then-Else logic
- Loops
- Graphics
JAVA HONORS
This area includes the methodology for designing a variety of computer programs written in the Java programming language. Most of the programming projects have real life applications. Students learn:
- Syntax of Java
- Using the Java compiler
- Classes and objects
- Coding Applets
- Creating methods
- Invoking library methods
- Reading input data
- Formatting output data
- Type casting
- Top-down and object oriented design
- Logical expressions and operators
- If-Then-Else logic
- While and for loops
- Graphics