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</style><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle">This article is part of a series on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle"><a href="Advanced_Placement" title="Advanced Placement">Advanced Placement</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-above" style="background: #78CDED;">
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<ul><li><a href="AP_African_American_Studies" title="AP African American Studies">African American Studies</a></li>
<li><a href="AP_Art_and_Design" title="AP Art and Design">Art and Design (2-D, 3-D, and Drawing)</a></li>
<li><a href="AP_Art_History" title="AP Art History">Art History</a></li>
<li><a href="AP_Biology" title="AP Biology">Biology</a></li>
<li><a href="AP_Calculus" title="AP Calculus">Calculus (AB and BC)</a></li>
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<li><a href="AP_Computer_Science_A" title="AP Computer Science A">Computer Science A</a></li>
<li><a href="AP_Computer_Science_Principles" title="AP Computer Science Principles">Computer Science Principles</a></li>
<li><a href="AP_English_Language_and_Composition" title="AP English Language and Composition">English Language and Composition</a></li>
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<li><a href="AP_Environmental_Science" title="AP Environmental Science">Environmental Science</a></li>
<li><a href="AP_European_History" title="AP European History">European History</a></li>
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<p>The <b>Advanced Placement</b> (<b>AP</b>) <b>Computer Science</b> (shortened to <b>AP Comp Sci</b> or <b>APCS</b>) program includes two <a href="Advanced_Placement" title="Advanced Placement">Advanced Placement</a> courses and examinations covering the field of <a href="Computer_science" title="Computer science">computer science</a>. They are offered by the <a href="College_Board" title="College Board">College Board</a> to <a href="Secondary_education_in_the_United_States" title="Secondary education in the United States">high school</a> students as an opportunity to earn college credit for <a href="College" title="College">college</a>-level courses.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The program consists of two current courses (<a href="AP_Computer_Science_Principles" title="AP Computer Science Principles">Computer Science Principles</a> and <a href="AP_Computer_Science_A" title="AP Computer Science A">Computer Science A</a>) and one discontinued course (<a href="AP_Computer_Science_AB" class="mw-redirect" title="AP Computer Science AB">Computer Science AB</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>AP Computer Science was taught using <a href="Pascal_(programming_language)" title="Pascal (programming language)">Pascal</a> for the 1984–1998 exams, <a href="C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a> for 1999–2003, and <a href="Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a> since 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>There are two AP computer science courses currently offered.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Computer Science Principles is considered to be a more "big picture" course than the programming-intensive Computer Science A.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p><a href="AP_Computer_Science_A" title="AP Computer Science A">AP Computer Science A</a> is a programming-based course, equivalent to a first-semester–level college course. AP CSA emphasizes <a href="Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">object-oriented programming</a> and is taught using the programming language of <a href="Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a>. The course has an emphasis on problem-solving using <a href="Data_structure" title="Data structure">data structures</a> and <a href="Algorithm" title="Algorithm">algorithms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="AP_Computer_Science_Principles">AP Computer Science Principles</h3></div>
<p><a href="AP_Computer_Science_Principles" title="AP Computer Science Principles">AP Computer Science Principles</a> is an introductory college-level course in computer science with an emphasis on <a href="Computational_thinking" title="Computational thinking">computational thinking</a> and the impacts of computing. The course has no designated programming language, and teaches <a href="Algorithm" title="Algorithm">algorithms</a> and <a href="Computer_programming" title="Computer programming">programming</a>, complementing Computer Science A.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p><a href="AP_Computer_Science_AB" class="mw-redirect" title="AP Computer Science AB">AP Computer Science AB</a> included all the topics of AP Computer Science A, as well as a more formal and a more in-depth study of <a href="Algorithms" class="mw-redirect" title="Algorithms">algorithms</a>, <a href="Data_structures" class="mw-redirect" title="Data structures">data structures</a>, and <a href="Data_abstraction" class="mw-redirect" title="Data abstraction">data abstraction</a>. For example, <a href="Binary_trees" class="mw-redirect" title="Binary trees">binary trees</a> were studied in AP Computer Science AB but not in AP Computer Science A. The use of <a href="Recursion_(computer_science)" title="Recursion (computer science)">recursive</a> data structures and <a href="Dynamic_allocation" class="mw-redirect" title="Dynamic allocation">dynamically allocated</a> structures were fundamental to AP Computer Science AB.
</p><p>AP Computer Science AB was equivalent to a full-year college course.<sup id="cite_ref-CSABhomepage_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSABhomepage-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Due to low numbers of students taking the exam, AP Computer Science AB was discontinued following the May 2009 exam administration.<sup id="cite_ref-CSABdiscontinued_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSABdiscontinued-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="Computer_science_education" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer science education">Computer science education</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFHavardHoward2019" class="citation journal cs1">Havard, Douglas D.; Howard, Keith E. (February 28, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.26716%2Fjcsi.2019.02.1.2">"All Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science is Not Created Equal: A Comparison of AP Computer Science A and Computer Science Principles"</a>. <i>Journal of Computer Science Integration</i>. <b>2</b> (1) 2: <span class="nowrap">16–</span>34. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.26716%2Fjcsi.2019.02.1.2">10.26716/jcsi.2019.02.1.2</a></span>.</cite></li></ul></div><!--htdig_noindex--><div><div class="zim-footer">
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