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Abstract | ||
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In 1981 the APCS Development Committee recommended the use of Pascal in an AP course whose first exam was given in 1984. This decision was controversial; BASIC was in widespread use and serious consideration was given to a language-neutral exam and course. In 1985 an ad-hoc committee made recommendations on changing the exam format, essentially creating two courses that correspond roughly to CS1 and CS2. In 1995 an ad-hoc committee was convened to make recommendations on how best to incorporate C++ into the AP course and exam. The decision to adopt C++, made in 1994, was decidedly controversial. The ad-hoc committee made recommendations on a subset of C++ and on classes similar to those in the standard library, but which were safe for novice programmers to use. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2000 | 10.1145/330908.331903 | SIGCSE |
Keywords | DocType | ISBN |
widespread use,exam format,APCS Development Committee,AP course,panel session,language-neutral exam,ad-hoc committee,standard library,advanced placement computer science,serious consideration,novice programmer | Conference | 1-58113-213-1 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.61 | 1 |
Authors | ||
9 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Cartwight | 1 | 2 | 0.61 |
| Rich Kick | 2 | 2 | 0.61 |
| Cay Horstmann | 3 | 4 | 1.57 |
| Fran Trees | 4 | 14 | 4.16 |
| Gail Chapman | 5 | 109 | 16.34 |
| David Gries | 6 | 4 | 1.23 |
| Henry Walkers | 7 | 2 | 0.61 |
| Ursula Wolz | 8 | 155 | 36.57 |
| Owen Astrachan | 9 | 371 | 66.61 |