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Wow, I guess it has changed a lot since I took it in 2007ish. My recollection is that it was almost all theoretical, with only a little bit of tinkering with a
by epmatsw 8y ago
Wow, I guess it has changed a lot since I took it in 2007ish. My recollection is that it was almost all theoretical, with only a little bit of tinkering with a toy game program as a practical bit.
- applecrazy 8y agoWell, it’s still theoretical-the multiple choice section has questions of the type “what will this code print out?” Also, they have a free response section where you write code on paper (it’s 2018, come on, coding on paper?!?).
- jcranmer 8y agoThere used to be two AP CS exams: the A and the AB variant. Around 2009, the AB variant was dropped, so the modern AP CS is A. I expect you probably took the AB exam. In terms of rigor, the A exam is largely a "can you program" exam, while AB focused more on data structures and algorithms (although the most complex data structure is a binary search tree).