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Re: Quotes from the Chief Engineer and I

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Originally Posted by nighterfighter View Post
That's good to see you are actively working on a solution.

I'm surprised that students were simply "placed" into a AP course, much less a CS course. When I was in high school it was an elective, with a decent amount of prerequisites.

As for what text book to use? No idea. I don't remember what book we used when I took the test, that was in 2010.

Does your school not provide any textbook at all for the course?
Picking the textbook is up to the teacher, so therefore he decided that the class did not need one as he would teach it in class. Currently we are learning by doing type and runs, it's effective to some extent, but we are only learning syntax, nothing else.
The kids were placed in because we needed more kids for it to be a class, they get math credit, and the school gets money for each kid that takes AP Computer Science.