My school did not offer the course, but I was allowed to take some basic computer related course and just self teach myself the curriculum in the corner of the

My school did not offer the course, but I was allowed to take some basic computer related course and just self teach myself the curriculum in the corner of the room and take the test on my own in 2012. I have never formally studied computer science but I think it was a reasonable curriculum. It was all java based. It primarily emphasized the basic concepts of OOP, testing if you can work with a basic API, and designing some recursive algorithms to solve a problem. I took 11 other APs, and felt it was comparably deep relative to the other tests. Generally I thought the AP classes were very effective as mature 101 introductions to the subject matter. Computer Science has a rough time because many students may reasonably be well beyond its expectations before even starting the course unlike one may expect for, say, Chemistry or Calculus. But I thought it was great for those who didn't already have the background.