This course uses the AP subset of the Java programming language to teach the fundamentals of programming and the elements of data structures and algorithm design.

Intro to Computer Programming surveys the field of computer science and introduces the rudiments of computer programming to students with little or no previous programming experience. We use the Java programming language with its easily accessible graphics capabilities. At the end of the course each student selects and tackles an ambitious project, often a computer game, allowing them to demonstrate their newly-acquired skills and their imagination.

Introduction to Romance Languages is a year- long, academically focused course designed to introduce interested college prep junior and senior students to the internal and external histories as well as structures of three major Romance languages and understand their direct connections to the history of the Roman Empire.
The three major Romance (from the Latin adverb Romanice, “in the Roman manner”) languages studied: French, Spanish, and Italian are only a few of the myriad of local languages, all descendants of Latin, mostly developed after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
This course explores the major changes both in sound structure and in general grammatical organization that marked the transition between Latin and the Romance languages, and their different territorial distributions following the expansion and the fall of the Roman Empire.
The course also provides a sampling of Romance languages and cultures for students who have not have a prior opportunity for world language learning, or for those who would like to understand the similarities and differences of these languages.
Introduction to Romance Languages is a non-sequential course, and does not lead to the development of communicative proficiency in any of these languages.

Journalism offers opportunities to think critically, do investigative reporting, exercise first amendment rights, write to deadlines, and build the dynamic team that publishes the Coat of Arms. Our student-run newspaper’s purpose is to inform, entertain and represent readers in the Menlo community. In order to fulfill the contract they have with readers, students will study the elements of journalism, the dimensions of local news, the rights and responsibilities of free speech in American society, and the fundamentals of news gathering and writing. They will learn to recognize, evaluate, and write in various journalistic styles including news, in-depth features, sports, editorials, commentaries and columns, reviews, and profiles.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
--Thomas Edison

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