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AP Computer Science A- Elective
This College Board Advanced Placement (AP) course teaches students how to design and implement computer programs that solve problems relevant to today’s society, including art, media and engineering. The course uses the Java programming language to solve complex problems through hands-on experiences and examples including the development and analysis of algorithms and fundamental data structures, and the use of logic and formal methods. The course emphasizes both object-oriented and imperative problem solving and design. Students who successfully pass the AP exam will earn 3 college credits.
Lectures, tests and daily assignments for this course are posted on Schoology.
Through the support of Amazon, the entire curriculum is online and can be accessed through Edhesive.com. All students participating in the Amazon Future Engineer program received a free membership to AWS Educate which provides them with free access to computing power in the AWS Cloud for their coding projects and content to learn about cloud computing.
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