{"id":1898,"date":"2008-04-04T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2008-04-04T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:22:57","slug":"ap-computer-science-ab-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/04\/04\/ap-computer-science-ab-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Computer Science AB Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The very first AP class I took in high school was the Computer Science AB test.  Today, I learn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/03\/AR2008040303925.html?referrer=emailarticle\">the Washington Post<\/a>, that the Computer Science AB test is on the chopping block (along with Italian, Latin literature, and French literature.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe AP Computer Science AB test is a superset of the AP Computer Science A test, yet I cannot help but thinking that this is a sad day for computer science education.  Among the topics which are (or were) in the AB test but not in the A test <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AP_Computer_Science\">are<\/a> (or were)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Two-dimensional arrays<\/li>\n<li>Linked lists (singly, doubly, circular)<\/li>\n<li>Stacks<\/li>\n<li>Queues<\/li>\n<li>Trees<\/li>\n<li>Heaps<\/li>\n<li>Priority queues<\/li>\n<li>Sets<\/li>\n<li>Maps<\/li>\n<li>Hashing<\/li>\n<li>Quicksort<\/li>\n<li>Heapsort<\/li>\n<li>Big-O notation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, those are all good, dear, friends (However, I don&#8217;t remember having to study Priority queues or maps when I took the test.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first AP class I took in high school was the Computer Science AB test. Today, I learn from the Washington Post, that the Computer Science AB test is on the chopping block (along with Italian, Latin literature, and French literature.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}