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A Case Study of Taking AP Computer Science Principles: A Student's Perspective
Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Vol.2, pp.1588-1589
ACM Conferences
SIGCSE 2024: The 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Portland, Oregon, USA, 03/20/2024–03/24/2024)
03/15/2024
Abstract
With the increased demand for Computer Science degrees in the work force, Computer Science is becoming more prominent in high schools. AP Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) is a course that serves as a bridge into Computer Science. Code.org provides a year-long curriculum for this AP course to be led by teachers in the classroom. Beyond an analysis of the pass rates of students, and with the recency of the AP CSP course, a reflection of the AP CSP curriculum from the student's perspective is in order. This study breaks down the strengths and weaknesses of AP CSP from a student's perspective. Results show there are many strengths compared to weaknesses in relation to the Code.org curriculum. However, the course can be a little challenging in motivating and engaging students if not executed properly by the teacher.
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- Title
- A Case Study of Taking AP Computer Science Principles: A Student's Perspective
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Vol.2, pp.1588-1589
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Conference
- SIGCSE 2024: The 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Portland, Oregon, USA, 03/20/2024–03/24/2024)
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); New YorkNYUnited States
- Series
- ACM Conferences
- Copyright
- © 2024 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.
- Identifiers
- 99380506697306600
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science; Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English