The first-course conundrum

  • Authors:
  • Hal Abelson;Kim Bruce;Andy van Dam;Brian Harvey;Allen Tucker;Peter Wegner

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT;Williams College;Brown University;UC Berkeley;Bowdoin College;Brown University

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Recently, the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) has decided to redesign the Advanced Placement (AP) examination in computer science (CS) so that AP courses will be forced to switch from Pascal to C++ starting around 1998.