<p>burlmom - My son took AP CS at our high school but it was a terrible course - the teacher didn’t know the material, let alone teach it, so it was sort of self taught. He got a 5 on the test. I guess you would have to have the compiler for the language (Java?) on your home computer so he could do the programming excercises (I think that is the right terminology, I am not a CS person.)
My D did an independent study of AP Art History under the supervision of a teacher this year. They only met about every 3 weeks for an hour or so after school, it was pretty much self taught as she read the entire two volume text on her own and only had a few quizzes and assignements, and she got a 4.
So it is very possible to do this.</p>