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AP Language, Computer Courses Cut
- PieSquared 19y agoHeh, it amuses me how they group "computer science" with "language". Interesting. And they should cut the CS A exam, not the CS AB exam. Maybe that way people will be forced to learn a bit more, and that's never harmful. (As a side note, I was recently looking at the contents of the AP exam on Comp Sci because I wanted to skip said course in my school, and the differences really aren't that big, just a few algorithms and data structures, so it wouldn't be a big stretch to teach those additionally.)
- mhartl 19y agoIt's not quite as bad as it looks for CS: there are two AP Computer Science tests, A and AB. College Board cut the latter, which covers more material. It would like eliminating Calculus BC but keeping AB---bad, but not catastrophic. As a former taker of the CS AB exam (back in the Pascal (!) days), it does make me sad, though.