Advanced placement computer science: the future of tracking the first year of instruction

Authors:
Owen Astrachan;Henry Walker;Chris Stephenson;Lien Diaz;Jan Cuny
Affiliations:
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA;Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA;Computer Science Teachers Association, New York, NY, USA;College Board, New York, NY, USA;National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science program is intended to reflect enough of a common core of a first semester or year of university-level computer science so that placement or credit can be awarded for work done before college. The SIGCSE symposia have a long history of providing forums for discussing the evolution of the AP program from its inception [1] to the transition from Pascal to C++ [3] to the transition from C++ to Java [2,5,7,8,9]. Panels related to how credit and placement are awarded have also been part of the SIGCSE conferences [4,6]. This special session is a report of the ongoing process of developing new and possible wide-ranging changes to the AP program.