[Edu-sig] Could there be a new test, call it AP something else?

[Andrew Harrington]

Sounds good to me, David.  Good luck putting it over.  Maybe after we get 10
million hits on PyWhip?

Andy

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:36 AM, David MacQuigg <macquigg at ece.arizona.edu>wrote:

> 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 untenable.
>>
>
> 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 advantage :>).  If you find a problem that is not
> easily translated to another language, that is a clue that the problem is
> about cruft, not fundamentals.  I would volunteer to do the Java to Python
> translations.
>
> -- Dave
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