Ms. Berry
The room where you can find me before, during, and after each school day.
What is Room #2702?
The length of each individual section (MCQ and FRQ) of the AP CS A exam.
When you may use AI on assignments for this course.
What is only after the AP exam? (Half credit for "Never")
How I will be calling on students to answer questions in class.
What is randomly?
"A finite set of instructions that accomplish a specific task." AKA a list of steps to follow to solve a problem.
What is an algorithm?
The best email address to reach me at.
What is Virginia_L_Berry@mcpsmd.org? (Full Credit for ".org" or full address with typos)
The language that Free Response Question answers should be written in.
What is Java?
The period of time during which Personal Mobile Devices (phones, headphones, etc) may not be used at PHS.
What is 7:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.? (Full credit for "the entire school day", no credit for "during class")
The maximum score you can get on work submitted between the due date and the deadline.
What is 90%?
What is a loop? (Full credit for "iteration", half-credit for "procedure" or "function")
When you can come see me for help on assignments, to recover quiz points, to request a due date extension, to learn more about a topic beyond the course content, etc.
When is anytime I'm in Room 2702 with the door open? (Half-points for "when is during lunch?")
What is 12 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12th? (Half-credit for a subset of that information.)
The digital textbook where you'll access both readings and coding assignments.
What is CSAwesome?
The 3 things you should bring to class every day (100 points each).
What are your fully-charged school-issued Chromebook, your spiral notebook for reading notes (I will hand these out), and a writing implement (mechanical pencil recommended)?
The operator that gives you the remainder when the first operand is divided by the second (e.g. 24 ___ 10 = 4)?
What is modulus, MOD, or %?
The minimum number of times per week I will check my MCPS email.
What is 10?
Approximately how long you can spend on each MCQ question on average (rounded down).
What is 2 minutes?
The only type of laptop you may use during this class (and all your classes per MCPS policy).
What is your school-issued Chromebook? (Half-credit for Chromebook)
How many times you can take your name out of the random calling pool no-questions-asked before we meet at lunch to find an alternative solution. (2-part answer, 200 points each)
What is 3 times in one quarter OR twice in one week?
A code segment that may or may not be run depending on the value of a boolean expression.
What is a conditional? (Full credit for "selection" or "if statement")
How I will be grading your coding projects.
What is writing custom unit tests and manually checking your code for readability and efficiency?
The percentage of points in BOTH the MCQ section AND the FRQ section (2 separate answers) that are allocated to Unit 4: Data Collections.
What is 30-40% (MCQ) and 44% (FRQ)? (Full credit for 11/25 instead of 44%)
The website where you can find practice problems used by Computer Science graduates to prepare for coding interviews if you have finished all other work.
What is LeetCode?
The 3 things you can do to make a due date extension request more likely to be granted.
What are ask during lunch or over email instead of during class (100 points), be present and on task during class time (200 points), and ask before the due date has passed (200 points)?
The decimal equivalent of this binary number: 0110 1001.
What is 64 + 32 + 8 + 1 = 105?