Enduring Understanding

Creating a prototype, getting feedback on areas for improvement, and then refining your work to create a new prototype is a powerful process for developing an effective end product.

Success Criteria

• Thinking
  • purpose, audience, and beneficial effect of your app is clearly identified
  • clear evidence of revision based on feedback
• Knowledge
  • you are able to navigate the programming environment (Xcode) effectively
  • you author readable code and create a well-organized Xcode project
  • you develop the application over time (remaining weeks of the school year), using source control to make incremental additions to your codebase
• Application
  • to meet expectations:
    • your application makes use of arrays in some way
    • you apply abstraction by:
      • using helper views to reduce code duplication
      • using the MVVM design pattern
    • you persist data in your app (when closed and re-opened, data is not lost)
  • optionally to exceed expectations, you:
    • make use of web endpoints to obtain data presented in your app
    • use a database to persist information or share information between users of your app
• Communication
  • in an end-of-year 10-minute interview, you can confidently describe how the significant portions of code in your app work
  • you can otherwise make the case for having met the overall learning goals of this course

Acceptable Generative AI Use

Students are permitted to utilize generative AI tools as supplementary resources for understanding coding principles, assisting in code development, and debugging.

Students should be aware that generative AI tools can produce incomplete code, code that creates or introduces biases, code with errors, inefficiencies in how the code executes, or code complexities that make it difficult to understand and therefore explain the code. It is the student's responsibility to review and understand any code co-written with AI tools, ensuring its functionality. Additionally, students must be prepared to explain their code in detail in their end-of-year interview.

The use of program code, media (e.g., video, images, sound), data, information, or evidence created by someone else or with generative AI tools in the creation of a program and/or a program code segment(s), without appropriate acknowledgment (i.e., through citation, through attribution, and/or by reference), is considered plagiarism.

A student who commits plagiarism will receive a score of 0 on the culminating task.

This statement aligns with College Board and Lakefield College School policy for responsible use of generative AI tools and academic honesty. The text of the statement above is largely identical to the policy described by the College Board for the AP Computer Science Principles Create Task.

TIP: In the exemplar below, Mr. Gordon made use of ChatGPT twice while developing his application, to model expectations for acceptable generative AI use. Here is his first citation (from when he developed a “star rating” view). Here is his second citation (from when he worked out how to save a book’s cover image to device storage). Finally, here are the citations made for images Mr. Gordon used in his application.

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