Sweet’s AP Computer Science Principles class at Renaissance High School had 35 students, 63 percent of whom were female. All but two of his students decided to take the final exam, and 27 passed.

All three found their way into Yolanda Velasco’s Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles class ... and how the internet works. For a final project, they have to come up with a problem ...

Testing totals for female, black and Latino students all doubled in 2017, following the national debut of an AP course in computer science principles ... design their own projects in CSP.

AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science Principles. In the Principles course, students complete an introduction to the quickly evolving and indispensable world of computer science.

the College Board introduced a new Advanced Placement (AP) course in 2016: Computer Science Principles, which explores a range of topics in technology and computation, in contrast to the original ...

While students in AP Computer Science A work to debug and analyze Java code, engaging in one 3-hour multiple choice exam at the end of the year, Principles is much more conceptual and project-based.

The organization teamed up with Code.org to develop the newly launched AP Computer Science Principles course to bring computer science studies to students and schools that may have never had it ...

Last summer, College Board announced AP Computer Science Principles, a course that views computing through a creative and collaborative lens. It only requires curiosity — instead of previous knowledge ...