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by maceurt 2820 days ago
A lot of colleges are using Java which is what is on the AP exam or at least the AP exam I am taking. I don't know many colleges that are actually teaching CS with C anymore sadly. Tbh, the AP exam does not prepare one for programming at all, any self respecting university should not accept credit for passing it.
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hfdgiutdryg 2820 days ago
Tbh, the AP exam does not prepare one for programming at all

That's why it's called the AP Computer Science exam rather than the AP Programming exam.

any self respecting university should not accept credit for passing it.

I don't think you appreciate what a CS degree means.

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maceurt 2819 days ago
> I don't think you appreciate what a CS degree means.

Yeah, I will admit am not too keyed up on what a CS degree entails. I thought it was like CS 101, CS advanced or something like that, some other choice of CS electives like visual programming, and then the usual course load that is required for most other degrees like English, etc. I know for certain though, just by looking through some of the videos on MIT's opencourseware and Harvard's videos and problem sets for their beginning CS course, that the even if you could get a perfect score on your AP computer science exam you could easily be unprepared for advanced programming classes at university. I don't think an exam and a high school cs class is anywhere near enough to be worth college level cs credit.

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