This site is intended to make all communication related to AP/IB Computer Science at Bellaire a lot easier. The AP/IB computer course is designed to prepare students to be successful on both the SL and A level IB and AP exams respectively and is meant to emulate a first computer science course at the undergraduate level.
Communication
You can email Mr. Newland at newton@jayfox.net.
You can also send instant messages to JimmyNewland using AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, or GTalk.
- Course Google Group - BHS Comp Sci
- Course Calendar
- Tell me who you are - student info
Grading
- Academic dishonesty will always have severe consequences. There is no reason to cheat. Ask for help if you need it.
- Six weeks grades are calculated as a percentage of the total available points during that term.
- Assignments: (every student is expected to his or her own work)
- Programs: 10 pts
- Quizzes: 10 pts
- Threaded Discussions: 10 pts
- Chapter Tests: 100 pts
- Programming Tests: 50 pts
Material
- IB Comp Sci Standard Level Material
- View Course Lecture Notes
- Program Dossier Information
Free Java Tools
- Sun's Java JDK for Windows - Download and install this first. (Macs don't have to download Java)
- BlueJ - Graphical IDE
- DrJava - Simple IDE
- Netbeans - GUI IDE
- JavaDoc - API for Java