Re: [school-discuss] AP Computer Science

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

Hmm,

In looking quickly through the 2001 and 2002 free response questions, my 
initial reaction is that the college board should have named the test 
the C++ AP exam.

Looks like their switching to Java, so study Java syntax, the Boards 
class library, and a good algorithms book.

- cameron

chip wrote:
> My school doesn't offer anything close to any programming classes.
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> I am self/book/friend taught in Perl/PHP/Python(the 3 Ps of Programming?)
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> I have dabbled in C/C++, Ruby, TCL and Java. More so in Java. But I 
> wouldn't consider myself very skillful in those yet.
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> I am talking to my school consoler about possibly taking the AP Computer 
> Science exam in May(in addition to AP Government and AP English - o what 
> fun :-D)
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> I have looked at many of the PDFs on the College Board Website about the 
> AP Comp Sci exam: http://www.collegeboard.com/ap/students/compsci/
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> I am looking for any specific curriculum or books that closely follow 
> the requirements for the Computer Science exam along with any other 
> suggestions.
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> Thank You,
> 
> -Paul Querna
> 



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