Suggestion for Summer AP or equivalent Computer Science classes

ucbalumnus
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:26:21 +0000

Due to variations in how colleges organize their introductory CS courses, one cannot rely on getting subject credit for AP scores or transferred introductory CS college courses. Best to think of taking CS while in high school as a means of getting an overview of the field (useful for both potential CS majors and those not intending to major in CS) and gauge whether one is interested in majoring in CS in college. For this purpose, AP CS principles or a college course on which AP CS principles uses as a suggested model is more useful than AP CS A and similar college courses.