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Re: College Board eliminates computer science AP test
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:58:46 -0700
________________________________________ From: Peter Wayner [pcw () flyzone com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 12:09 PM To: Tim Finin Cc: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] College Board eliminates computer science AP test What I find fascinating are the battles over the language for the courses. Long ago, there was a fight to move from C to Java, a decision that was fraught with business implications. Now some are pushing for more dynamic, untyped languages because that's where some of the excitement is. But given the graph on the ACM blog site, it doesn't seem to me like there's been much of a decline. It doesn't come close to mirroring the boom and bust in college enrollments. So I'm not surprised that there's also some redesign of the curriculum in play too. -Peter ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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