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Fwiw, AP Computer Science must have gotten better. I took AP Computer Science in High School in 2012. The whole curriculum was based on this “Grid World” Java
by Wowfunhappy 4y ago
Fwiw, AP Computer Science must have gotten better.
I took AP Computer Science in High School in 2012. The whole curriculum was based on this “Grid World” Java program where a Grasshopper extends JumpingBug extends Bug or something like that, no not as an analogy for OO, the classes were literally named like this. And, the AP test asked specific questions about Grid World's implementation, so you had to learn about it even if you understood the underlying computer science concepts.
I wish we learned about linked lists. I didn’t get that until college.
- letitbeirie 4y agoYou took it after they switched to Java, which abstracts away the mechanics of collections. Linked lists were much more fundamental (and covered much earlier) when they were using C++.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoOof—I had no idea that was a thing. Especially at that age, I would have loved to learn C++, due to some misguided notions of what constitutes "real programming".