I was a part of the first class that changed the AP test from C++ to Java. Our CS teacher had state winning teams for C++ and none of us passed the Java test :/

I was a part of the first class that changed the AP test from C++ to Java. Our CS teacher had state winning teams for C++ and none of us passed the Java test :/ The communication and process for switching the test was handled poorly to say the least. It was pretty hard spending years looking forward to high school CS to learn C++ and then be denied that. To this day I’ve used Java for absolutely nothing but I do plenty of native compilation for JS/Python -> C/C++.