I would very much like to see this efforts expanded to earlier ages and
stages in math development. I work with kids as young as three and on, using
Scratch with them. They learn so much from programming, from coordinate
thinking to increments and gentle calculus (e.g. that you program speed as
Litvin wrote:
What might this new exam be like? CS with no programming and no
math? We'll see. My guess is, if it eventually comes about, it will
be a no-specific-programming-language exam, which will simply replace
the current AP CS exam in Java. I believe two AP CS exams will be
At 09:36 AM 1/25/2010, David MacQuigg wrote:
I can't imagine teaching or testing CS without an actual
language. A much better alternative would be to have the same test
in multiple languages (perhaps with a handicap factor for the
students choosing Python, so they don't have an embarrassing
Gary,
Interesting site, ACSL.
Curious, there is no mention of specific languages or freedom of language
the I find quickly on their site. The only hint is the list of languages
given where solutions are given, Is that the actual list of restrictions?
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Litvin
Litvin wrote:
At 09:36 AM 1/25/2010, David MacQuigg wrote:
I can't imagine teaching or testing CS without an actual language. A
much better alternative would be to have the same test in multiple
languages (perhaps with a handicap factor for the students choosing
Python, so they don't have an
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Litvin lit...@skylit.com wrote:
Me too -- by a factor of two. At least. So what? First language
discussions flare up regularly on the ap-compsci listserve. In this forum,
Python would win, of course. :) I am all for Python, but I don't believe in
the
Litvin wrote:
AP is driven by colleges. The AP exam used to be in C++ until 2003.
The current exam has heavy emphasis on OOP. It took a tremendous
effort to retrain HS teachers from C++ to Java/OOP... If the college
board decided that Python is used at most colleges in intro CS
courses,
Hi Brian --
If you wanna go to a lot of work, but not a huge amount, write wrapper class
for the Standard Library turtle that intercepts its commands and updates an
on-board data structure, representing pixels x pixels, specifying self
position, keep color info stashed per each one. That's a lot
