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Students should use their JAVA Concepts Study Guide as well as the course book to review material.  In addition, purchase a Barron's study guide to review for the AP exam.  The AP Central website has many resources for students.

Students taking AP Computer Science are required to take Java Programming. In this course a unit is spent on An Introduction to Computers. This unit includes an introduction to Desktop Computing, Operating Systems, Mobile Computing, Programming Languages, Networks, Number Systems, including Binary and Hexadecimal, Data Storage, Internet, Internet Privacy Issues, Internet Acceptable Use Policy, and Social and Ethical Implications of Computer Use. At the conclusion of this course, students are expected to know and use variables, constants, iteration, control statements, output, method use, method development, parameters, access specifiers, method overloading, return values, pre and post conditions, Strings, Math Class, instantiation of objects, class constructors, design and implement a class, some inheritance and polymorphism, Arrays, and ArrayList. Reference: Brown, Beth, A Guide to Programming in Java, Lawerenceville Press, 2005. CR8, CR9

 

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