Suggestion for Summer AP or equivalent Computer Science classes

traveler98
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:40:55 +0000

Lots of colleges have non-credit summer coding camps, which might fit better into her schedule than a full CS course. If she’s planning to major in CS in college, it’s not necessary for her to take AP CS in high school. Plenty of CS majors hit college without any programming courses. As long as she’s completed a rigorous math sequence she’ll be fine. There are plenty of online resources if she wants to try to learn programming on her own (most students these days start with Java and move on from there, but really she can start with whatever interests her the most).

Does her high school allow seniors to take AP CS? If so, she can just wait until senior year.

If she’s really keen for both the knowledge and the credit, an intro CS course online through her local community college is a fine option. The local state university 6-week course you mention is probably a semester-equivalent course, meaning it will be pretty fast-paced to get through all the work but should still result in the same credit as a full semester course. Depending on her aptitude and level of interest, that could be fine or it could be too much.